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- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Release Date: Oct 18, 2024
- Summary: The fourth full-length release from Brirish alternative/indie rock band Porridge Radio features songs that began as poems lead singer Dana Margolin wrote after a relationship ended.
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- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock
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Oct 21, 2024A record that is surprising, affecting and invigorating in its honesty.
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UncutOct 17, 2024Sitting somewhere between alt.rock, indie-pop and a singer-songwriter album, it’s a neat balancing act that feels personal and intimate yet also sonically ambitious. [Dec 2024, p.37]
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Oct 17, 2024Here Dana’s lyricism and delivery land closer to the depth of feeling of Sharon Van Etten or Weyes Blood (‘Wednesday’; ‘In A Dream’), their evolution over the album’s course reflecting its slow but sure tilt towards thematic light.
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MojoOct 17, 2024Opener Anybody’s declaration of fresh love duly builds with electrifying presence. There follow bare-wire examinations of audience dependency (Lavender, Raspberries) and resurgent desire (In A Dream I’m A Painting), before Sick Of The Blues provides a heartburstingly triumphant ‘choose life’ finale. [Nov 2024, p.84]
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Oct 21, 2024Clouds unfurls its delicate arrangements and startling contrasts across a wider space than Porridge Radio has ever played in before.
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Oct 23, 2024The record’s motifs surge with flavor as Margolin’s eloquent talk-singing is backed by euphoric instrumentals. The band has a knack for touching upon arena rock’s divine grandiosity without losing a twee familiarity and closeness. The result feels like riding among the clouds.
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Record CollectorNov 4, 2024While some songs are slow-builds - though alt-ballad I get Lost is delicately untouched - the likes of God Of Everything Else and You Will Come Home take on an overwhelming intensity at a stroke. [Dec 2024, p.108]