Porridge Radio’s Dana Margolin shares haunting debut solo single ‘Big Beautiful Sound’

Porridge Radio‘s Dana Margolin has shared her debut solo single ‘Big Beautiful Sound’. Check it out below.

The Brighton band announced their split in January 2024, sharing the goodbye single ‘Don’t Want To Dance’, followed by their final EP, ‘The Machine Starts To Sing’ in February. They later embarked on a farewell tour and played their final show in Glasgow back in December.

Now Margolin has shared the first taste of her work as a solo artist with ‘Big Beautiful Sound’.

Written alongside collaborators Sam Yardley and Dan Hutchins, the song was constructed under the rules that anything recorded must fit within the confines of an 8-track recorder.

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The result is a deeply emotional, intimate track featuring an acoustic guitar and minimal percussion. Speaking about ‘Big Beautiful Sound’, Margolin said: “We go all the way down together, down a spiral staircase into the centre of the earth where there is darkness and nothing can grow, and we chose to go there, and wasn’t it fun, and right there at the deepest depths of the journey is a glowing ember, something luminous, a big and beautiful sound.”

It comes alongside a black-and-white video by Mike Mills and Joe Nankin, which you can watch below.

Margolin is also heading on tour with Ezra Furman later this year. You can see a full list of dates below and get tickets here.

Dana Margolin’s tour dates are:

OCTOBER
7 – London, UK – The Golden Hinde
9 – Guimarães, PT – Sonus Art Festival
15-17 – Cardiff, UK – Sŵn Festival
21 – Liverpool, UK – Epstein Theatre*
22 – Norwich, UK – The Halls*
23-25 – St. David’s, UK – Boia Festival
26 – London, UK – Union Chapel*
27 – Reading, UK – Minster Church*
28 – Brighton, UK – Brighton Dome Corn Exchange*

* = supporting Ezra Furman

Back in 2020, shortly before the release of Porridge Radio’s ‘Every Bad’, NME spoke to Margolin. “It feels really good to have recorded something where I love how it sounds, especially after recording our first album in a shed,” she said. “There were a million things I wanted to do differently when it came to production. I wanted it to sound the way it sounded in my head, and I wanted it to carry the energy we have when we play live.”

About playing shows, she added: “I gained confidence in my abilities as a guitarist and as a singer from playing live,” she explains, “and I didn’t have any of that before; it was something I figured out as we went along. We all love that feeling of playing a show – that half an hour of being on stage, that magical feeling, that buzz, and just going for it – which makes everything else about touring really worth it.”