King Cardinal - Bluebird Theater

‘Reviver’ Album Release Show

Be one of the first to experience King Cardinal’s ‘Reviver’ live at the Bluebird Theater in Denver. The album release show is on January 16 alongside Colorado-based special guests Travis McNamara and Nina de Freitas.

“I moved to Denver on a whim,” says King Cardinal founder Brennan Mackey. “I’d been living in Chicago, working a finance job that I didn’t love, and I knew exactly what the rest of my life would look like if I stayed there. I decided I wanted to throw everything up in the air and see where it landed.”

Recorded in a period of transformation and upheaval that threatened to end the project entirely, King Cardinal’s extraordinary new record, Reviver, finds bandleader Brennan Mackey reimagining the group from the ground up, fusing modular synthesizers and digital samplers with washed out guitars and dreamy pedal steel to craft a captivating blend of electronic and organic sounds. 

At its core, the songs are still classic King Cardinal—honest, vulnerable reflections on loss and longing, hope and doubt, recovery and redemption—but the fresh sonic palette is utterly revelatory, transforming the familiar into the unexpected with adventurous arrangements and bold production. The result is a lush, cinematic journey to the brink and back, an enthralling reintroduction to an artist learning to let nature to run its course as he discovers his sound—and himself—all over again.

See tickets and information here.