British indie rock band Porridge Radio have announced that they will be releasing a new album titled ‘Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me’. The upcoming album is set to be released on the 18th of October via Secretly Canadian and will be the groups fourth LP. To preview the record the band have shared the lead single ‘Sick of The Blues’. Fans can pre-order a copy of the album via the band’s website.

Our new album Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me is out October 18th!

Sick Of The Blues is out today with a live video from our performance at Le Centre Pompidou in April 2024

EU/UK/US tour on sale Friday

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— Porridge Radio (@porridgeradio) July 30, 2024

According to a press release the new project was inspired by burnout, the music industry, heartbreak, and band leader Dana Margolin’s increasing immersion in her craft as a songwriter and artist. A short-lived relationship for Margolin and subsequent heartbreak inspired the album which is seen in the single ‘Sick of the Blues’. She spoke about how this inspired the project: “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.”

She continued talking about the new single: “‘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.”

‘Clouds In The Sky Will Always Be There For Me’ was produced by Dom monks, who has also worked with the likes of Big Thief and Laura Marling, and it was recorded in Frome at the beginning of this year. The band was invited to debut their new material following the recording sessions at a performance at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Margolin spoke about how the upcoming album felt like a breakthrough for the band: “It feels like the first time we’ve made something. 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.”

The full tracklist for their new album is below:

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’

As well as announcing the new album, Porridge radio have shared dates for a world tour where they will be playing a run of dates in the UK during November. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (August 2nd) at 10am and fans can buy tickets here.

The full list of dates is below:

November 2024

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