Porridge Radio Announce Breakup, Share Song From Final EP: Listen

Porridge Radio are breaking apart. The Brighton band fronted by Dana Margolin shared the information alongside an announcement of its remaining new launch. A brand new EP known as The Machine Starts to Sing options songs recorded through the periods for final 12 months’s Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me, and is out Feburary 21 on Secretly Canadian. A kind of songs “Don’t Need to Dance” is out at this time; 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 At all times Be There for Me, and imply so much to us. We’re excited so that you can hear them. This band has been our life, we’re household now. These excursions can be our final. Thanks a lot for listening.”

Porridge Radio start their final tour subsequent week. The group’s remaining present is presently scheduled to happen on Might 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 may 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 Every Bad and its incendiary single “Sweet.” That report’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 anxiousness over her newfound visibility. Ryall departed the group in 2023, and Porridge Radio’s fourth and remaining 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 possibly imply reverse issues throughout the similar 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 form of makes them true.”