Porridge Radio’s Clouds in the Sky is an album that sounds like the end of the world, but also the start of something new. Eleven tracks that are as tender as they are fierce, exploring heartbreak and self-reconstruction.
With their fourth album, Dana Margolin and bandmates released Clouds in the Sky on October 18th, 2024. This album channels the emotions from the burnout of relentless touring, a painful breakup as well as understanding yourself as both a human and an artist.
To add on, the track “God of Everything Else” is none other than a whirlwind of emotions that truly captures Margolin’s fury at her partner who let her down. It’s more than just a breakup anthem but rather a declaration of independence, letting listeners know she is a force to be reckoned with.
Producer Dom Manks, assists Porridge Radio explore new musical landscapes that give the album its beautiful instrumentation that is woven into silence and sound. Listeners can hear this in “Pieces of Heaven”, while they float to the gentle drums, soft guitars and Margolin’s soothing voice.
The lyrics throughout the album seem to follow a similar theme of struggling with impossible standards, whether it comes to being a perfect person, partner or performer. Margolin refers to envisioning someone she wishes she were as well as the person she will never be. The grappling for identity is clear in “In a Dream I’m a Painting” where we see vocal mimicry between laughing and breaking down.
Porridge Radio’s Clouds in the Sky isn’t interested in finding resolutions but rather in embracing the jagged edges—puzzle pieces that might not objectively fit together but create something powerful from that brokenness.
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