LIVE: Porridge Radio

@ Rough Trade East on 12 March 2020

On a challenging day, when it would be no surprise at all for gig ticketholders up and down the country to stay at home, there was a really good crowd here to see this 4-piece and get a close quarters preview of tracks from the very soon to be released album.

Keen followers will have heard previous incarnations of these songs on the excellent, but low-fi, Rice, Pasta and Other Fillers (2016) along with more recent singles Sweet and Circling. But, in Dana Margolin’s own words, it’s a very special day for them to be releasing their first album via Secretly Canadian; titled Every Bad.

And they made it count tonight. Irrepressible post-punk rhythms and sharp guitar are married to Margolin’s no-hold-barred vocal delivery, which is compelling and hits home the hooks to brilliant effect tonight.

One previously-unheard track was a particularly beautiful, angst filled, bitter-sweet song of the highest order. I am reliably informed this was Pop Song – and if it was possible to come away with an extra level of anticipation for my first play of the album on Friday, this was it.

I look forward to sharing more on this and the rest of the album with you very soon.

You can scroll through some snaps from the in store below:

Every Bad is out on 13 March 2020 via Secretly Canadian.

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Just a final extra note

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