Porridge Radio announce new album, Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me

After relentlessly touring in help of Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky, the start of 2023 was a interval of reflection and knotty questions on identification, creativity, and household. On the similar time, after recovering from the burnout, a short-lived however intense relationship ended. The connection and subsequent heartbreak fed into the genesis of the songs that will make up Clouds, as evidenced in lead single, “Sick of the Blues”. “A whole lot of this album is a few extra frenetic and determined type of love,” says Dana Margolin. “It’s about fully dropping my sense of self in a single relationship, and the deep residue of insecurity and ache that lingered and clouded a brand new relationship.”

As described by Margolin, “‘Sick Of The Blues’ is about being heartbroken and taking again some pleasure, remembering that you just’re the supply of your individual happiness, not another person, even if you’re damage and left with a gap in your coronary heart. After being messed round sufficient, you simply need to take again management. I simply needed to let it go, cease letting it eat me. I needed simplicity, to have enjoyable and bear in mind every part good that might presumably occur. To like wholly, to not take something too significantly. To have enjoyable with my buddies, to take away the tunnel imaginative and prescient and fall in love with my life once more.”

Clouds In The Sky They Will At all times Be There For Me is a coming-of-age second impressed by burnout, the music business, heartbreak, and Margolin’s personal rising immersion in her craft as an artist. “Nearly all of the songs began out as poems,” says Margolin of her completely different strategy in writing the music. She had discovered {that a} songwriter can all the time disguise behind the tips of the music. “In a poem, although,” she says, “you may’t disguise.”

Margolin displays on Clouds In The Sky They Will At all times Be There For Me with the passion of an actual artistic breakthrough. “It appears like the primary time we’ve made one thing. It captured one thing about our friendship as a band and the best way that we’ve learnt to play collectively.” Margolin continues, “It’s taught me a lot. Following your intestine to the nth level, trusting your folks and their loyalty, trusting your self to have the ability to battle with individuals correctly and nonetheless come again collectively. How I need to reside is how I need to make information, as a result of making information is my life as a result of my work is my play is my job is my life. All of it ties collectively on this factor, and there are methods to do that which may not kill me.”

The band additionally proclaims a nine-date UK tour, alongside European and North American dates, with exhibits in Bristol, Leeds, Glasgow, Margate, London and extra.

Tracklist:

1. Anyone
2. Gap In The Floor
3. Lavender Raspberries
4. God Of All the pieces Else
5. Sleeptalker
6. You Will Come Residence
7. Wednesday
8. In A Dream
9. I Get Misplaced
10. Items Of Heaven
11. Sick Of The Blues