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

After relentlessly touring in support of Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky, the beginning of 2023 was a period of reflection and knotty questions about identity, creativity, and family. At the same time, after recovering from the burnout, a short-lived but intense relationship ended. The relationship and subsequent heartbreak fed into the genesis of the songs that would make up Clouds, as evidenced in lead single, "Sick of the Blues". “A lot of this album is about a more frenetic and desperate kind of love,” says Dana Margolin. “It is about completely losing my sense of self in one relationship, and the deep residue of insecurity and pain that lingered and clouded a new relationship.”

As described by Margolin, “‘Sick Of The Blues’ is about being heartbroken and taking back some joy, remembering that you’re the source of your own happiness, not someone else, even when you’re hurt and left with a hole in your heart. After being messed around enough, you just want to take back control. I just wanted to let it go, stop letting it consume me. I wanted simplicity, to have fun and remember everything good that could possibly happen. To love wholly, to not take anything too seriously. To have fun with my friends, to remove the tunnel vision and fall in love with my life again.”

Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me is a coming-of-age moment inspired by burnout, the music industry, heartbreak, and Margolin’s own increasing immersion in her craft as an artist. “Almost all the songs started out as poems,” says Margolin of her different approach in writing the music. She had learned that a songwriter can always hide behind the tricks of the music. “In a poem, though,” she says, “you can’t hide.”

Margolin reflects on Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me with the enthusiasm of a real creative breakthrough. “It feels like the first time we’ve made something. It captured something about our friendship as a band and the way that we have learnt to play together.” Margolin continues, “It’s taught me so much. Following your gut to the nth point, trusting your friends and their loyalty, trusting yourself to be able to fight with people properly and still come back together. How I want to live is how I want to make records, because making records is my life because my work is my play is my job is my life. It all ties together in this thing, and there are ways to do this that might not kill me.”

The band also announces a nine-date UK tour, alongside European and North American dates, with shows in Bristol, Leeds, Glasgow, Margate, London and more.

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
9. I Get Lost
10. Pieces Of Heaven
11. Sick Of The Blues