The third studio album from Cardinal Black. Self-produced and self-engineered, the record was created largely while the band were in transit, recorded at Clouds Hill Studios in Hamburg between dates on a European tour. Where its predecessor 'Midnight at The Valencia' (2025) looked outward toward the romance and tantalising borrowed-glamour of Americana, 'Second Sign of Life' turns its attention closer to home. The result is a more immediate, stripped-back and introspective record rooted in the band's British surroundings and shaped by the strange, in-between spaces of life on the road. Across ten songs, Cardinal Black balance soulful vocals, expressive guitar playing and a rawer, more instinctive musical approach with some of their most personal songwriting to date, capturing a band increasingly-comfortable trusting its instinct and defining its own sound.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Saving Grace

Cardinal Black

2.Take Me to the Water

Cardinal Black

3.All I Ever Wanted

Cardinal Black

4.Perfect Time

Cardinal Black

5.Higher

Cardinal Black

6.I Could Be Anything

Cardinal Black

7.Neon Lights

Cardinal Black

8.More Than Your Love

Cardinal Black

9.Growing Up

Cardinal Black

10.There Was Everything

Cardinal Black

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