Porridge Radio are breaking apart. The Brighton band fronted by Dana Margolin shared the information alongside an announcement of its closing new launch. A brand new EP referred to as The Machine Begins to Sing options songs recorded in the course of the classes for final yr’s Clouds within the Sky They Will At all times Be There for Me, and is out Feburary 21 on Secretly Canadian. A type of songs “Don’t Wish to Dance” is out right now; hearken to it under.
“That is the final new music from Porridge Radio and marks the top of the band,” Margolin said. “The songs on this EP are an essential a part of Clouds within the Sky They Will At all times Be There for Me, and imply rather a lot to us. We’re excited so that you can hear them. This band has been our life, we’re household now. These excursions will likely be our final. Thanks a lot for listening.”
Porridge Radio start their closing tour subsequent week. The group’s closing present is at present scheduled to happen on Could 10 in Bucharest, Romania.
Porridge Radio fashioned in Brighton, England in 2015 with a lineup of Margolin, bassist Maddie Ryall, keyboardist Georgie Stott, and drummer Sam Yardley that might final via 2023. Their first album, Rice, Pasta and Different Fillers, got here out in 2016, however they started attracting critical, worldwide consideration in 2020 for his or her label debut Each Dangerous and its incendiary single “Candy.” That file’s follow-up, 2022’s Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky, expanded on its predecessor’s sound, as Margolin’s lyrics grew to become infused with anxiousness over her newfound visibility. Ryall departed the group in 2023, and Porridge Radio’s fourth and closing album, the gently devastating Clouds within the Sky They Will At all times Be There for Me, got here out final October.
“I like the thought of one thing being so changeable and self-contradictory that it may imply reverse issues inside the similar phrase,” Margolin mentioned in a 2020 interview with Pitchfork. “And should you repeat it time and again, you’re pressured to suppose in one other means each time you say it. And simply saying issues time and again type of makes them true.”
