Porridge Radio – A Hole In The Ground (Secretly Canadian)
Ahead of new album Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, Porridge Radio has released epic single A Hole In The Ground
Artist: Porridge Radio
Track: A Hole In The Ground
Label: Secretly Canadian
Released: 12 September 2024
Find it: Spotify | Bandcamp
Ten years on from forming we’re a couple of weeks off the release of the new album from Porridge Radio, Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me. At the start of summer they released album closer Sick Of The Blues, and now they’ve shared the dark but epic A Hole In The Ground.
With a vocal style somewhere between weary and wisdom-laden, there is intricate instrumentation alongside the trademark intense emotion. Here there is also the sense of both fragility in facing those emotions, and the unbreakable walls trap you with your thoughts. There’s quieter passages, and bolder moments where vocal and instrumentation are in freefall with each other.
Band leader Dana Margolin said of the track, “This is a song about not knowing, being trapped in a haunted fairytale or a horrible nightmare and running and running and predicting horrible futures that come true and self-fulfill. It’s a gentle lullaby but it’s also a folk tale with a tragic ending. This is a song about knowing what you don’t know yet. Seeing the future by guessing, being right.”
Ahead of the album Margolin has shared, “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.”
That swirl of emotions is expressed poetically and forcefully on A Hole In The Ground.
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A Hole In The Ground by Porridge Radio is out now digitally. Album Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me is out on all formats on 18 October 2024 via Secretly Canadian.
Find Porridge Radio: Website | Bandcamp | Spotify | Facebook | Instagram
Upcoming UK and Ireland live dates:
- 7 November – Whelans, Dublin
- 18 November – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
- 19 November – Motion and The Marble Factory, Bristol
- 20 November – Leeds Irish Centre, Leeds
- 22 November – Òran Mór, Glasgow
- 23 November – Newcastle University Student’s Union, Newcastle
- 25 November – Gorilla, Manchester
- 26 November – Electric Brixton, London
- 29 November – The Lido, Margate
- 30 November – CHALK, Brighton
More dates across Europe, the US and Canada follow. See social media for full details.
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Sarah Lay
A long-standing music journalist she's also co-founder of independent record label Reckless Yes, an author of novels, and when not messing around with words and music, a digital strategist.
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