Cardigan Inn makes new wave for people who have never decided whether they want to dance, think, cry, or all at once. The Amsterdam band melts the melancholy of ’80s synthpop together with the sharp edges of contemporary postpunk: guitars, rhythms and melodies that are just too big to stay neatly within the lines. Think of David Byrne with more caffeine, or New Order with a touch of glamour. Their music is carried by frontman Pablo Nollet, who with his charismatic appearance and approach leads a band live that is as theatrical as it is hyperenergetic.

After a summer in which they were seen among others at Lowlands (Share a Coke-stage), Into The Great Wide Open, Motel Mozaïque and in the support act for Franz Ferdinand and Good Kid, the band now loudly asks themselves what they actually always wanted to say. The answer is on the single ‘Universally Personal’: a song about songs, about the impossibility of perfection and about the absurd and beautiful attempt to make something universally personal in a world full of opinions. The track is the first new music since their debut EP '…As In Sweater Hotel' (2024), released in collaboration with the Amsterdam La Kamarade.