Porridge Radio will release their new album Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, on October 18th via Secretly Canadian, ahead of the LP’s arrival, the band have shared its lead single, “Sick of the Blues,” alongside a live video from their recent performance at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me is a coming-of-age moment inspired by burnout, the music industry, heartbreak, and band leader Dana Margolin’s own increasing immersion in her craft as an artist.“Almost all the songs started out as poems,” says Margolin of her different approach in writing the music. She had learned that a songwriter can always hide behind the tricks of the music. “In a poem, though,” she says, “you can’t hide.”

As described by Margolin, “‘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. 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.”

Produced by Dom Monks, longtime engineer for Big Thief and Laura Marling, Clouds was recorded in Frome at the beginning of 2024 in an environment where Margolin could fully express herself. The band – Margolin (guitar, vocals), Georgie Stott (keyboards, backing vocals), Sam Yardley (drums, keyboards), and Dan Hutchins (bass) – worked more closely than ever on sculpting the album, and for once, they were all able to record in the same room as the producer. “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.”

Following the recording sessions, the band was invited to debut this new material, including “Sick of the Blues,” at a special performance at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Conceptually led by Dana with her sister, director Ella Margolin, and set designer Ellie Wintour, the ambitious set was inspired by the work of sculptors Alexander Calder and Constantin Brâncuși, complete with a graveled stage, willowy pillars hanging from the ceilings, and mime artists moving around the stage with various props.

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Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me
Tracklist
Secretly Canadian

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 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
Thurs. 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
Thurs. 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 ChapelPre-order
Fri. Feb. 7 – San Francisco, CA @ Independent
Sun. Feb. 9 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex

Pre-order Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me by Porridge Radio HERE