Cardboard to release debut LP this Friday 7th November

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Cardboard to release self-titled garage rock debut LP on Friday 7th November

Launch party at The George Tavern this Friday

London four-piece Cardboard will release their raucous and spiky garage-rock debut long player this week. On Friday, their self-titled album drops and is full of intense adrenaline rushes, thrilling chaotic energy and visceral thrills. It distills the band’s live shows into 10 tracks of rock n roll joy, the perfect release to soundtrack the autumn nights ahead. It features previous singles ‘Lay Me Down’, ‘Paper Aeroplane’ and ‘Pipe Dream’.

‘Cardboard’ is the crystallization of the last four years for Cardboard. Gigging intensely across London, they’ve sold-out shows at all the right venues, The Lexington, The Shacklewell Arms and Sebright Arms, making the stage their own in process and becoming known as one of the most exciting, raw party bands in town.

‘Cardboard’ tracklisting -

Latest Frown

Tenner

Pipe Dream

Lacking Depth And Realism

Lay Me Down

Yesterday

Paper Aeroplane

I Don’t Wanna Know

Wouldn’t Let You Realise

Lost And Found

The band’s debut album captures the energy of the live show and brings melody to the fore whilst led by frontman Dan’s distinctive gravelly vocal that is a force of nature.

Cardboard will be playing an album release party on 7th November at The George Tavern in east London. Then they head to Spain for a double header in Madrid and Barcelona. The dates are below -

7th November @ The George Tavern (Album Launch Party)

19th November @ Sala Siroco, Madrid

20 November @ Sala Vol, Barcelona

Cardboard are -

Dan Hacker - vocals

Chris Clapham - guitar/vocals

Louis Bultitude - bass

Dan Rowson - drums

About Cardboard -

London-based rabble-rousers Cardboard have been stirring up chaos since 2021, having first met as teenagers at college. Having formed from the fated no-show of a bassist and drummer for their first rehearsal, Dan Hacker (vocals, guitar) and Chris Clapham (guitar, vocals) recruited the missing pieces: Louis Bultitude on bass and Dan Rowson on drums. The full lineup clicked into place, and Cardboard was born.

With a sound that crashes together grungy indie-rock and brazen, youthful defiance, Cardboard have carved out a space in London’s thriving live circuit. Drawing on the swagger of Queens of the Stone Age, the sharp edge of The Strokes, and the grit of Arctic Monkeys, their gigs are electric—buzzing with frantic crowds, raw emotion, and a dose of coming-of-age nostalgia.

They’ve since followed it up with ‘Pipe Dream’, the first taste of an upcoming album recorded at Stable Bone Studios, further expanding their sonic arsenal.

Cardboard have already headlined some of London’s most iconic indie venues, (Camden Assembly, The George Tavern, The Lexington) including a headline at The Sebright Arms for Independent Venue Week 2025.

Praised by Glitch Magazine for their “incredible, energetic atmosphere,” four-piece is already catching ears across the scene, with features from So Young, Dork, and Daily Music Report. Their single, ‘Wouldn’t Let You Realise’ hailed by So Young as “instantly capturing your full attention” and promises to “create even more of an adrenaline rush live”. With each release, Cardboard’s storm is only getting louder.