Porridge Radio are one of the most vital voices in UK alternative music, having escalated from being darlings of the DIY underground to one of the UK’s most thrilling bands. With ‘Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me’, the band present us with their most mainstream look yet.
“All the songs started out as poems,” says Porridge Radio’s Dana Margolin of the work that became ‘Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me’, “I wanted to challenge myself.” In a song, Dana argues, the writer can always hide behind the tricks of the music and well-worn techniques such as repetition. “In a poem, though,” says Dana, “it’s just words and that’s it.”
Recorded in the Somerset countryside in early 2024 by longtime Big Thief and Laura Marling engineer Dom Monks, ‘Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me’ is Porridge Radio’s new album and first new music in two years.
The UK band’s new album is a coming-of-age moment inspired by burnout, the music industry, the brutal collapse of a relationship and - crucially - Dana’s own increasing immersion in her craft as an artist. “A lot of this album is about a more frenetic and desperate kind of love,” says Dana, “it is about completely losing my sense of self in
a relationship, and the deep residue of insecurity and pain that lingered and clouded a new relationship.”
Tracklist
1. Anybody
2. Hole In The Ground
3. Lavender, Raspberries
4. God Of Everything Else
5. Sleeptalker
6. You Will Come Home
7. Wednesday
8. In A Dream I’m A Painting
9. I Got Lost
10. Pieces Of Heaven
11. Sick Of The Blues
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Released 18/10/24
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