Porridge Radio announced a new album, Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me. It’s the follow-up to 2022’s Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky, and it’s due out on October 18 via Secretly Canadian. It was produced by Dom Monks, and vocalist and bandleader Dana Margolin says, “A lot of this album is about a more frenetic and desperate kind of love. 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.”
“Almost all the songs started out as poems,” she adds. “In a poem, though, you canʼt hide.” See the cover art and tracklist below.
The first single is the cathartic “Sick of the Blues,” which Margolin says is “about being heartbroken and taking back some joy, remembering that youʼre the source of your own happiness, not someone else, even when youʼre 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.” Watch a live video, filmed at Paris’ Centre Pompidou, below.
Porridge Radio have also announced a tour, with dates beginning in Europe and the UK this fall. The North American leg begins in January of 2025, and includes an NYC show at Warsaw on January 25. Tickets to all dates go on sale Friday, August 2 at 10 AM local time, and you can see all dates below.
PORRIDGE RADIO – CLOUDS IN THE SKY THEY WILL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR ME 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
PORRIDGE RADIO: 2024-2025 TOUR DATES
Thu. Oct. 31 – Tourcoing, FR @ Le Grand Mix
Fri. Nov. 01 – Vendôme, FR @ Les Rockomotives
Sat. Nov. 02 – Lorient, FR @ Les Indisciplinées
Thu. Nov. 07 – Dublin, IE @ Whelanʼs
Mon. Nov. 18 – Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms
Tue. Nov. 19 – Bristol, UK @ Marble Factory
Wed. Nov. 20 – Leeds, UK @ Irish Centre
Fri. Nov. 22 – Glasgow, UK @ Òran Mór
Sat. Nov. 23 – Newcastle, UK @ Newcastle University SU
Mon. Nov. 25 – Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
Tue. Nov. 26 – London, UK @ Electric Brixton
Fri. Nov. 29 – Margate, UK @ Lido
Sat. Nov. 30 – Brighton, UK @ Chalk
Mon. Dec. 02 – Amsterdam, NL @ Tolhuistuin
Tue. Dec. 03 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique
Thu. Dec. 05 – Paris, FR @ Le Trabendo
Mon. Dec. 09 – Hamburg, DE @ Knust
Tue. Dec. 10 – Berlin, DE @ Columbia Theater
Wed. Dec. 11 – Prague, CZ @ Futurum
Thu. Dec. 12 – Vienna, AT @ Flex
Sat. Dec. 14 – Schorndorf, DE @ Manufaktur
Sun. Dec. 15 – Zurich, CH @ Mascotte
Tue. Dec. 17 – Luxembourg City, LU @ Rotondes
Wed. Dec. 18 – Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof
Thu. Dec. 19 – Cologne, DE @ Artheater
Thu. Jan. 23 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
Fri. Jan. 24 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
Sat. Jan. 25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
Sun. Jan. 26 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
Tue. Jan. 28 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
Thu. Jan. 30 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Fri. Jan. 31 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry
Tue. Feb. 04 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
Wed. Feb. 05 – Seattle, WA @ The Chapel
Fri. Feb. 07 – San Francisco, CA @ Independent
Sun. Feb. 09 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex