If parting is such sweet sorrow then that’s why breaking up is hard to do, or something. That may be the worst opening line of any music review ever written, but it doesn’t change the fact that Porridge Radio are splitting up. After four albums, the last of which being Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, the Brighton four piece are calling it a day after a career partially given life by a Mercury nomination for 2020’s Every Bad.
The four songs on this parting gift are all culled from the same sessions as the host album, but mostly lack it’s collar-grabbing intensity, although the titular opener has singer Dana Margolin reaching for modern paranoia tech. The highlight though is at the opposite end, I’ve Got a Feeling (Stay Lucky) gambling by their standards almost merrily through territory once the home of Throwing Muses. It’s not us, it’s them, but maybe it’s better to have loved Porridge Radio than to have never loved at all.
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