Porridge Radio Share a New Track ‘Back To The Radio’

Porridge Radio have announced details of their third album ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’ and shared its debut track ‘Back To The Radio’. The band has also announced their biggest-ever UK headline tour, as well as a series of small in-store gigs to coincide with the release of the album.

Dana Margolin wrote ‘Back To The Radio’ prior to the release of the band’s critically acclaimed 2020 album ‘Every Bad,’ during a period when she felt like “a lot of things were coming that I wasn’t sure I knew how to handle”.

“The song grew out of a feeling of intense loneliness and being unprepared for what everybody was promising me was about to happen – and a strong desire to escape without knowing what I wanted to escape to,” she said in a press release. “To me, there’s a huge feeling of catharsis in this song, of letting go and letting it sweep you away.”

Margolin’s sister Ella directed the video, which shows the singer waking up in a room with papier-mâché furniture being gently removed one by one. Later, she joins the rest of Porridge Radio in a room painted with landscape scenery, where she is moved around by people clad entirely in black. Watch it in the video above.

Secretly Canadian will release ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’ on May 20.

“With this album, the feelings of joy, fear and endlessness coexist together,” Margolin said of the record as a whole, adding that its title “symbolises the ups and downs of human life, of virtue and transgression”.

‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’ tracklist:

01. ‘Back To The Radio’
02. ‘Trying’
03. ‘Birthday Party’
04. ‘End Of Last Year’
05. ‘Rotten’
06. ‘U Can Be Happy If U Want To’
07. ‘Flowers’
08. ‘Jealousy’
09. ‘I Hope She’s OK 2’
10. ‘Splintered’
11. ‘The Rip’
12. ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’

—Silviya.Y