8.3
Avg Score
7
Opinions
#1,371
All Time
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“Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky is a standout return from Porridge Radio”
“On the Brighton four-piece’s excellent new record, they expand their massive sound in new and surprising ways”
“Finding joy through repetition was a keynote of Brighton rockers Porridge Radio’s wondrous second album, Every Bad. The band’s majestically unfettered singer-guitarist Dana Margolin would take a refrain and repeat it until it became unavoidable, unforgettable, while the other three players summoned a storm behind her. Sadly, Every Bad was released just as we all discovered the pleasures of queuing”
““You’re looking to me, but I’m so unprepared for it,” Dana Margolin sings on ‘Back To The Radio’, the first track on Porridge Radio’s third album ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’. She wrote this song just before the release of their last album, 2020’s ‘Every Bad’, when she felt things were about to change for them. She was right about that. The Brighton band became the newest indie da”
“If Porridge Radio and Dana Margolin have taught us anything over three albums, it’s that self-doubt can sound as invigorating as it is exhausting. Here, Margolin is as forceful and fervent as ever, questioning and probing with the depth and dynamism that made 2020’s Every Bad such an excavating listen. But this is also the sound of a band that’s scaled up a long way from the DIY, shed-recorded con”
“Broadening its sound and tightening its lyrical focus, the Brighton post-punk band conjures mantras of despair and anthems of pure frustration.”
