Porridge Radio – “Sick Of The Blues” [Video]

Porridge Radio announce their fourth album, Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, out October 18th via Secretly Canadian, and present its lead single, “Sick of the Blues,” alongside a live video from their recent performance at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me is a coming-of-age moment inspired by burnout, the music industry, heartbreak, and band leader Dana Margolin’s own increasing immersion in her craft as an artist. Across the album, Margolin’s ruthlessly self-interrogating writing style is matched by some of the band’s most affecting music to date, patiently building and tragically intense. “Almost all the songs started out as poems,” says Margolin of her different approach in writing the music. She had learned that a songwriter can always hide behind the tricks of the music. “In a poem, though,” she says, “you can’t hide.”

After relentlessly touring in support of Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky, the beginning of 2023 was a period of reflection and knotty questions about identity, creativity, and family. Margolin wanted to work out a way forward – how do you retain creativity without harming yourself in the process? At the same time, after recovering from the burnout, a short-lived but intense relationship ended. The relationship and subsequent heartbreak fed into the genesis of the songs that would make up Clouds, as evidenced in lead single, “Sick of the Blues.” “A lot of this album is about a more frenetic and desperate kind of love,” says Margolin. “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.”

As described by Margolin, “‘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.”

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