Photo by Matilda Hill-Jenkins.
Porridge Radio have shared the third single from their sixth album — Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To the Sky — out May 20 via Secretly Canadian. "End Of Last Year" is an anthem for the insecure, arriving alongside an animated music video and the announcement of the Brighton band's first-ever North American tour.
The new song finds lead singer and lyricist Dana Margolin second-guessing her every move as a flurry of drums, guitar, bass, and synth slowly unfurls beneath her. Her increasingly anxious delivery perfectly captures the claustrophobia of her intense neuroses, though she sounds ironically calm on the chorus: “Cut off my shoes instead of taking them off / Cut off my hands because they’re itching so much / Talk to myself because it’s getting so bad / Do you know? You break everything you touch.”
"’End Of Last Year’ is a love song for my bandmates and for myself," she explains. "It’s about not trusting my intuition, not trusting my body to heal itself, not trusting the people closest to me, but it is also an ode to all those people, and to difficult platonic love. It came out of a particularly painful period of communication breakdown and high pressure that hurt a lot, but ended in reconciliation and understanding."
Watch Maura Sappilo's appropriately sinister yet sweetly rendered animated visuals, and view all of Porridge Radio's upcoming tour dates, below.
Porridge Radio 2022 tour (new North American dates in bold)
May 20 - Manchester, UK - Piccadilly Records
May 21 - Edinburgh, UK - The Great Eastern 2022
May 22 - Leeds, UK - Crash Records
May 24 - London, UK - Rough Trade East
May 25 - Brighton, UK - Resident Music
May 26 - Bristol, UK - Rough Trade Records
May 27 - Totnes, UK - Sea Change Festival 2022
May 29 - Walton-on-trent, UK - Bearded Theory Spring Gathering
June 4 - Barcelona, ES - Primavera Sound Weekend 1 2022
June 8 - London, UK - O2 Academy Brixton
June 11 - Hilvarenbeek, NE - Best Kept Secret Festival 2022
June 29–July 2 - Ydynia, PL - Open’er Festival 2022
July 8 - Soliera, IT - Arti Vive 2022
July 9 - Siena, IT - LARS ROCK FEST 2022
July 14 - Sat. Jul. 16 - Budapest, HU @ Reflektor Festival
July 15 - Stirling, UK - Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival 2022
July 22 - Southwold, UK - Latitude Festival 2022
July 23 - Macclesfield, UK - Bluedot Festival 2022
August 9 - Stockholm, SE - Hus 7
August 11 - Oslo, NO - yaestivalen 2022
August 14 - Kiewit-Hasselt, BE - HEAR HEAR! 2022
August 15 - Wubterthur, CH - 47. Winterthurer Musikfestwochen
August 16-20 - Paredes de Coura, PT - Paredes de Coura Fest
September 1-4 - Sixpenny Handley, UK - End of the Road Fest
September 6 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
September 7 - Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room
September 9 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop
September 12 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir
September 13 - Seattle, WA - Barboza
September 15 - Boise, ID - Neurolux
September 16 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
September 17 - Denver, CO - Lost Lake
September 19 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
September 20 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
September 23 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
September 24 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
September 25 - Washington, DC - DC9
September 27 - Atlanta, GA - Earl
September 28 - Nashville, TN - Basement East
September 30 - Dallas, TX - Three Links
October 1 - Austin, TX - Parish
October 15 - Digbeth, UK - The Crossing Digbeth
October 20 - Sheffield, UK - Southampton 1865
October 22 - Exeter, UK - Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre
October 24 - Nottingham, UK - Metronome
October 25 - Bristol, UK - Trinity Centre
October 26 - Cambridge, UK - Cambridge Junction
October 28 - Glasgow, UK - Saint Luke’s
October 29 - Manchester, UL - Manchester Academy 2
October 30 - Leeds, UK - Leeds Irish Centre
November 1 - Hove, UK - The Old Market
November 2 - Hove, UK - The Old Market
November 3 - London, UL - 02 Shepherds Bush Empire
November 11 - Amsterdam, NE - Melkweg OZ
November 12 - Maastricht, NE - Muziekgieterij
November 13 - Cologne, DE - Club Volta
November 16 - Lyon, FR - Le Sonic
November 17 - Milan, IT - Biko
November 19 - Bologna, IT - Covo Club
November 20 - Annecy, FR - Le Brise Glace
November 22 - Barcelona, ES - La 2 de Apolo
November 24 - Vigo, ES - Radar Estudios
November 25 - Guimaraes, PT - Centro Cultural Vila Flor (CCVF)
November 28 - Madrid, ES - Independance Club
November 29 - San Sebastian, ES - Dabadaba
December 1 - Bordeaux, FR - Rock School Barbey
December 2 - La Rochelle, FR - La Sir ne
December 4 - Bruges, BE - Cactus Club
December 5 - Luxembourg, LU - Rotondes
December 7 - Zürich, CH - Bogen F
December 8 - Munich, DE - Kranhalle, Feierwerk
December 10 - Vienna, AT - Flex
December 12 - Berlin, DE - Festsaal Kreuzberg
December 16 - Hamburg, DE - Hafenklang
December 17 - Copenhagen, DK - Lille Vega, VEGA
