Porridge Radio are breaking apart. The Brighton band fronted by Dana Margolin shared the information alongside an announcement of its last new launch. A brand new EP referred to as The Machine Starts to Sing options songs recorded in the course of the periods for final yr’s Clouds in the Sky They Will Always 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; take heed to it beneath.
“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 necessary a part of Clouds within the Sky They Will All the time 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 might be our final. Thanks a lot for listening.”
Porridge Radio start their final tour subsequent week. The group’s last present is at the moment 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 will final by means of 2023. Their first album, Rice, Pasta and Different Fillers, got here out in 2016, however they started attracting severe, worldwide consideration in 2020 for his or her label debut Every Bad and its incendiary single “Sweet.” That document’s follow-up, 2022’s Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky, expanded on its predecessor’s sound, as Margolin’s lyrics turned infused with nervousness over her newfound visibility. Ryall departed the group in 2023, and Porridge Radio’s fourth and last album, the gently devastating Clouds within the Sky They Will All the time 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 possibly imply reverse issues inside the identical phrase,” Margolin said in a 2020 interview with Pitchfork. “And should you repeat it time and again, you’re compelled to suppose in one other means each time you say it. And simply saying issues time and again type of makes them true.”
