From Americana to yacht rock...
and the Fray. Mackey then reworked the song – most of the instrumentals were re-recorded or changed in post-production – and added a healthy amount of guiro to the track.
The lyrics detail escaping an abusive relationship and went through a few variations as different people worked on the words. "Runaway" also is expected to appear on a King Cardinal compilation album that Mackey plans to release next year. The project will comprise past singles, including the popular 2020 track,Incesticide“I think we’ve put out five singles so far,” he says. “We'll put out four or five more this year and put them in one package. We don’t want to call it an album, because the songs aren’t really cohesive.
“We’ve been kind of letting loose of the constraints that we put on ourselves,” Mackey says. He explains that in the band's"pre-pandemic mindset," there was a focus on sounding purely Americana."If I brought a song and it didn’t sound like a King Cardinal song," he says,"we wouldn’t do it.”