Porridge Radio have announced a new album titled Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me. The follow-up to 2022’s Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky arrives on October 18 via Secretly Canadian. The lead single, ‘Sick of the Blues’, is out now. Checkout a live video for it and find the album’s cover artwork, tracklist, and the band’s upcoming tour dates below.
“‘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,” bandleader Dana Margolin explained in a statement. “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.”
The new album was produced by Dom Monks and recorded in Frome, England at the beginning of 2024. “We’ve always been known as a band who do something very particular and very emotionally intense live, and Dom (Monks) knew how to get that feeling across,” Margolin said.
“It feels like the first time we’ve made something,” she added. “It captured something about our friendship as a band and the way that we have learnt to play together. 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.”
Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me Cover Artwork:
Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me Tracklist:
Porridge Radio 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 – Whelan’s
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 2 – Amsterdam, NL – Tolhuistuin
Tue Dec 3 – Brussels, BE – Botanique
Thu Dec 5 – Paris, FR – Le Trabendo
Mon Dec 9 – Hamburg, DE – Knust
Tue Dec 10 – Berlin, DE – Columbia Theater
Wed Dec 11 – Prague, CZ – Futurum
Thur 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 4 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Wed Feb 5 – Seattle, WA – The Chapel
Fri Feb 7 – San Francisco, CA- Independent
Sun Feb 9 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
