Porridge Radio have shared the latest single from their upcoming third studio album Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky. "The Rip" comes attached to a spooky, dreamworld video directed by Porridge Radio frontperson Dana Margolin's sister Emma Margolin.
The song, while unfortunately not a cover of Portishead's timeless 2008 song of the same name, is a banger in its own right. In a statement about the track, Dana Margolin said:
"The Rip" was the last song to be finished for the album, and we finished it about a week before we went into the studio to record it in March 2021. We wanted it to sound like massive pop, like Charli XCX, but with the instrumentation of bands like Slothrust or Deftones.
It took the longest a song has ever taken me to write lyrics for, and they took form over a few years. At the beginning it was a song about a power dynamic where I was in control, by the end it was about one where I had none.
The Brighton band's new album arrives May 20. Check out the video for "The Rip" below.
The song, while unfortunately not a cover of Portishead's timeless 2008 song of the same name, is a banger in its own right. In a statement about the track, Dana Margolin said:
"The Rip" was the last song to be finished for the album, and we finished it about a week before we went into the studio to record it in March 2021. We wanted it to sound like massive pop, like Charli XCX, but with the instrumentation of bands like Slothrust or Deftones.
It took the longest a song has ever taken me to write lyrics for, and they took form over a few years. At the beginning it was a song about a power dynamic where I was in control, by the end it was about one where I had none.
The Brighton band's new album arrives May 20. Check out the video for "The Rip" below.
