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Not a crumb of the feeling that inspired these songs was lost in translation. Dana says just just as much, if not more, through her delivery of the lyrics than an inspection of just the lyrics themselves could ever let on. Nowhere is this more apparent than the emotional rollercoaster of Mangolin’s repeated insistences “lock all the windows…” “thank you for making me happy”
Porridge Radio is potently heartbreaking and heartfelt, the whole band a perfect vehicle for the emotions they unleash
Favorite track: Back To The Radio.
Tony Billings
as an old git that has been in and out of the music scene since the early 80s my faith in music and artists was suddenly restored when i first heard Dana singing "i'm bored to death, let;s argue ..". i've gulped down everything PR have done since then ...back to the radio and the rip have been on repeat for me since release but i am gonna pick something from the newly released tracks for now .. thank you Porridge Radio for bringing real music home and reanimating this old child from the 80s.
Favorite track: I Hope She's Okay 2.
Jake Grubman
I love the energy of "Back To the Radio." That refrain is infectious and powerful, so motivating and beautiful.
Favorite track: Back To The Radio.
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Porridge Radio are one of the most vital new voices in alternative music, having gone from being darlings of the DIY underground to one of the UK’s most thrilling bands in the space of less than a year. Their barbed wit, lacerating intensity and potent blend of art-rock, indie-pop and post-punk sounds like little else around, and led their 2020 album Every Bad to make the nominees list for the coveted Mercury Music Prize.
For frontperson Dana Margolin, drummer Sam Yardley, keyboardist Georgie Stott and bassist Maddie Ryall – who met in the seaside town of Brighton and formed Porridge Radio in 2014 – global recognition has been a long time coming, after years of self-releasing and music booking their own tours. In those eight years, Dana has gained a reputation as one of the most magnetic band leaders around with an ability to “devastate you with an emotional hurricane, then blindside you with a moment of bittersweet humour” (NME).
But if Every Bad established Dana’s lemon-sharp, heart-on-sleeve honesty, Porridge Radio’s third album takes that to anthemic new heights. Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky is the sound of someone in their late twenties facing down the disappointment of love, and life, and figuring out how to exist in the world, without claiming any answers. It’s also catchy as hell.
The title – which was partly inspired by a collage by the British surrealist Eileen Agar – speaks to the “joy, fear and endlessness” of the past few years. Dana’s songwriting and delivery is more confident, with the emotional incisiveness of artists like Mitski, Sharon Van Etten and Big Thief. Though it’s softer and more playful in places than Every Bad’s blowtorch ferocity, there are moments of powerful catharsis, ones that occur when you allow the full intensity of an experience to take hold.
In places, that no-holds-barred rawness is on a par with bands like Deftones (their panoramic metal is a key touchstone of Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky) or American emo, elevated by Yardley’s ambitious instrumentals. “I kept saying that I wanted everything to be 'stadium-epic' - like Coldplay,” says Dana.
With Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky, Porridge Radio have distilled their myriad influences down like they’re flipping through their own singular dial: dreamy yet intense, gentle but razor-edged, widescreen and yet totally intimate. People tell Dana that Every Bad got them through their cancer diagnosis, their break-up, their isolated lockdown. But with their new album, the band are taking a step up and spring-boarding into a bright, exciting unknown.
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