Porridge Radio have shared a second single from their forthcoming album Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky. "The Rip" is an indie rock gut punch and comes with a video directed by Ella Margolin, the sister of frontperson Dana Margolin. Last month Porridge Radio shared "Back To The Radio," the first song from the follow-up to their Mercury Prize-nominated 2020 project Every Bad.
"’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," Dana said in a statement. "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."
"My friends always accuse me of making up idioms and using them like they are well known phrases and I think this song is full of those. I love the idea of something being sick at the seams, like it's disintegrating from its core. I like things that are so simple they are universal. I wanted it to sound like when your heart breaks so badly that your entire body aches. I wanted it to feel like your soul is dropping out of your body."
Hit play for heartbreak on the video above. Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky is out May 20.
