Porridge Radio say goodbye with single ‘Don’t Want To Dance’ from new EP that “marks the end of the band”

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Porridge Radio have announced their split and shared their goodbye single ‘Don’t Want To Dance’ from their forthcoming final EP.The Brighton band took to their official X/Twitter account to share ‘Don’t Want To Dance’ and wrote that their upcoming EP ‘Machine Starts To Sing’ – which is set for release on February 21 and available for pre-order here – will mark “the last new music from us as Porridge Radio and marks the end of the band.“The songs on this EP are an important part of Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, and mean as much to us as the 11 songs on the album.

We are excited for you to hear them,” they tweeted.They continued: “This band has been our life, we’re family now. These tours will be our last, thanks so much for listening.

With love, Dana, Georgie, Sam and Dan.”The melancholic ‘Don’t Want To Dance’ sees Dana Margolin softly wail: “No, I don’t want to dance, but I don’t want to cry about it / I think I’ve taken all that I can take / And I don’t want to think because I don’t want to think about it / I can’t sleep, can’t sleep without it,” describing something that is eating away at her.Formed in 2015, Porridge Radio was created by Margolin as a way to express herself and via inspiration from the sea in her hometown of Brighton.

In 2019, the band were signed by the US indie label Secretly Canadian. They released their second album and first on their new label home ‘Every Bad‘ in 2020.