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How Cardinal Turned One Voice Memo Into a No. 1 Album
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How Cardinal Turned One Voice Memo Into a No. 1 Album

By Priya AnandJuly 22, 202611 min read

The band opens the vault on the year that rebuilt them from the ground up.

The album that just debuted at number one began as a 40-second voice memo recorded in a hotel bathroom at 4am.

“We almost deleted it,” the band’s frontwoman admits. “It sounded like nothing. Then we couldn’t stop humming the nothing.”

A stadium tour followed within hours of the announcement - and sold out in four minutes flat.

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