The Brighton formed Indie- Punk band Porridge Radio have released a new single titled “The Rip” alongside a haunting and strange video. The song comes as a prelude to the release of their upcoming album Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky, which is due to drop on the 20th of May 2022.
The song is a powerful and direct anthem that moves between surreal pop essence to a heavier rock flavour. In a statement, singer Dana Margolin opened up about what the song means to her. She said; “’The Rip’ was the last song to be finished for the album, and we finished it about a week before we went into the studio to record it in March 2021. We wanted it to sound like massive pop, like Charli XCX, but with the instrumentation of bands like Slothrust or Deftones”.
Margolin went on to say; “It took the longest a song has ever taken me to write lyrics for, and they took form over a few years. At the beginning it was a song about a power dynamic where I was in control, by the end it was about one where I had none. My friends always accuse me of making up idioms and using them like they are well known phrases and I think this song is full of those. I love the idea of something being sick at the seams, like it’s disintegrating from its core. I like things that are so simple they are universal. I wanted it to sound like when your heart breaks so badly that your entire body aches. I wanted it to feel like your soul is dropping out of your body.”
To get your hands on a copy of the new album, follow the link here. Porridge radio are also set to embark on an extensive tour in the UK and Europe this year. Tickets for these shows can be found here, whilst details for the UK shows can be found down below.
UK Tour Dates:
20/05/2022- Piccadilly Records- Manchester, UK
21/05- The Great Eastern Festival- Edinburgh, UK
22/05- Crash- Leeds, UK
24/05- Rough Trade East- London, UK
25/05-Resident- Brighton, UK
26/05- Rough Trade Bristol- Bristol, UK
26-29/05- Spring Gathering- Derbyshire, UK
27-28/05- Sea Change Festival- Totnes, UK
08/06- O2 Brixton Academy- London, UK (supporting Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
15/07- Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival- Stirling, UK
21-24/07-Latitude Festival- Suffolk, UK
21-24/07- Blue Dot Festival- Cheshire, UK
20/10- The Foundry- Sheffield, UK
21/10- The 1865- Southampton, UK
22/10- Exeter Phoenix- Exeter, UK
24/10- Metronome- Nottingham, UK
25/10- Trinity- Bristol, UK
26/10- Junction- Cambridge, UK
28/10- Saint Luke’s- Glasgow, UK
29/10- Academy 2- Manchester, UK
30/10- Irish Centre- Leeds, UK
01/11- The Old Market- Brighton, UK
02/11- The Old Market- Brighton, UK
03/11- O2 Shepherds Bush Empire- London, UK
