NEWS
Porridge Radio have announced a new album, ‘Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me’ and shared its lead single ‘Sick Of The Blues’.
The follow-up to 2022’s ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’ will arrive on October 18 via Secretly Canadian.
Per a press release, the Brighton band’s new album “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,” Margolin added in the press release. “In a poem, though, you can’t hide.
“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.”
Coinciding with the announcement, the band have shared the album’s hopeful yet melancholic lead single and closing track ‘Sick Of The Blues’.
“‘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,” said frontwoman Dana Margolin about the new track. “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.”
Check it out below:
The tracklist of ‘Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me’ is:
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 have also announced a world tour, beginning with a UK and European run throughout November and December. In early 2025, they’ll be heading out on a US run.
You can see the full list of dates below and buy your tickets here and here.
OCTOBER
31 – Tourcoing, FR, Le Grand Mix
NOVEMBER
1 – Vendôme, FR, Les Rockomotives
2 – Lorient, FR, Les Indisciplinées
7 – Dublin, IE, Whelan’s
18 – Nottingham, UK, Rescue Rooms
19 – Bristol, UK, Marble Factory
20 – Leeds, UK, Irish Centre
22 – Glasgow, UK, Òran Mór
23 – Newcastle, UK, Newcastle University SU
25 – Manchester, UK, Gorilla
26 – London, UK, Electric Brixton
29 – Margate, UK, Lido
30 – Brighton, UK, Chalk
DECEMBER
2 – Amsterdam, NL, Tolhuistuin
3 – Brussels, BE, Botanique
5 – Paris, FR, Le Trabendo
9 – Hamburg, DE, Knust
10 – Berlin, DE, Columbia Theater
11 – Prague, CZ, Futurum
12 – Vienna, AT, Flex
14 – Schorndorf, DE, Manufaktur
15 – Zurich, CH, Mascotte
17 – Luxembourg City, LU, Rotondes
18 – Wiesbaden, DE, Schlachthof
19 – Cologne, DE, Artheater
JANUARY
23 – Washington, DC, The Atlantis
24 – Philadelphia, PA, The Foundry
25 – Brooklyn, NY, Warsaw
26 – Boston, MA, Brighton Music Hall
28 – Toronto, ON, The Garrison
30 – Chicago, IL, Thalia Hall
31 – Minneapolis, MN, 7th St Entry
FEBRUARY
4 – Portland, OR, Mississippi Studios
5 – Seattle, WA, The Chapel
7 – San Francisco, CA, Independent
9 – Los Angeles, CA, Echoplex
NEWS
Charli xcx has added the Music, Fashion, Film B sides “I Keep On Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and Night,” “Playboy Bunny” and “If You Take the Music Then What Has She Got?” to iTunes through a new digital deluxe release titled Music, Fashion, Film (B-Sides Edition).
The three tracks had already been introduced to listeners through Charli’s @b.sides alternative Instagram account. They also appeared as physical B sides on limited edition 7 inch singles for “Rock Music,” “SS26” and “Camera,” as well as in an extensive Music, Fashion, Film box set. However, fans were unable to officially buy them as digital downloads until Sunday, July 26.
Charli previously told her audience that the songs were “never gonna go on streaming … I don’t think,” although she admitted at the time that her decision might eventually change.
“you can call me a hypocrite, i don’t mind,” Charli wrote alongside a winking emoji while announcing Music, Fashion, Film (B-Sides Edition) on Sunday.
Priced at $4.99 on iTunes, the digital collection features all 11 songs from the original Music, Fashion, Film album, along with the three additional B sides and their accompanying music videos.
Explaining her choice further on Instagram, Charli wrote: “i made b sides for each of the songs released ahead of Music, Fashion, Film because it felt natural to pair each songs with a fitting counterpart – something that’s adjacent to the album but not entirely part of it. traditionally, b sides often become fan favorites… and i guess in the case of some of the b sides for this album, that has proven to be true. i felt adamant i wouldn’t put them on streaming because it sort of felt counter intuitive to the whole ethos of those songs, but i know you all really wanted them so i’ve begrudgingly put them on itunes lol.”
Music, Fashion, Film was released on Friday, accompanied by the online premiere of the theatrical short film Charli developed to complement the project.
She will begin a short North American tour supporting Music, Fashion, Film in Philadelphia on Sept. 11. The run will then visit Brooklyn, Toronto, Boston, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, San Diego, Los Angeles, Glendale and Las Vegas.
