photo credit: El Hardwick
Porridge Radio have shared brand new single ‘Lilac’, alongside news that they have signed to Secretly Canadian. You can watch the El Hardwick directed video for ‘Lilac’ here.
On ‘Lilac’, frontwoman Dana Margolin explains
“I wanted to find some power in powerlessness. I was thinking about love and control and the things out of my control, and how fragile and incapable depression can make you feel. I was thinking about the way you can feel so close to someone that it’s like their body is your body, like there’s no separation between you, but you can’t stop things disintegrating. It’s a song about finding some hope and some future within that.”
‘Lilac’ is the final in a trio of singles the band have released this year, propelling them from a word-of-mouth gem of Brighton’s DIY scene to a wider audience – landing them their first-ever 6 Music playlist spot, a live session on Marc Riley’s show and recent sold-out headline shows.
When The Guardian proclaimed Porridge Radio as one of their top musical newcomers of last year, the Brighton quartet were gaining a reputation for bowling over audiences on small stages around the seaside city – with Dana Margolin’s repetitive, direct lyrics fast becoming mantras for a fervent and steadily-growing fan base.
‘I don’t want to get bitter, I want us to get better, I want us to be kinder to ourselves and to each other’ sings Margolin to a crescendo on new single ‘Lilac’ – the pinnacle of the angst-driven therapy she has spent expertly carving out since the formation of the band.
Combining both a scratchiness and a dreamy softness that seem to happily co-exist, ‘Lilac’ rounds off an important year for the band – their debut release for Secretly Canadian teasing what is to come as they ready their first studio album
