- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Release Date: Oct 18, 2024
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Oct 21, 2024A record that is surprising, affecting and invigorating in its honesty.
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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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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 18, 2024While Margolin still leads with a raggedy blend of indignation and yearning, she also seems more resolved in facing long-standing grief and/or lingering PTSD. There’s fury here, floods of it, but also sorrow.
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Oct 18, 2024You’re left thinking it must be slightly terrifying to be the object of Margolin’s affections, but also deeply pleasing to have songs this fervent written about you.
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Oct 17, 2024The resulting Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me finds Porridge Radio still recognizably visceral and volatile but also a little wearier and occasionally resigned, as on the eerie, semi-rambling "In a Dream I'm a Painting" and on penultimate track "Pieces of Heaven."
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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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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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Oct 17, 2024Is Clouds In the Sky... better than Waterslide...? They both reward repeated listens so time will tell. Does it matter? No. Fans will love it, and new listeners, who fall in love on the strength of this album, have a stellar back catalogue to devour.
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Oct 17, 2024At times Clouds risks being dragged down by its bleak outlook, but ultimately it's a moving portrait of a band on the brink of its own breakthrough.
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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]