Porridge Radio unveil four minutes of '7 Seconds'

Words: Ellie Ward 

Porridge Radio have unveiled a brand new song called ‘7 Seconds’.

Lasting a little longer than its title in practice, the song, produced by Marta Salogni, comes in advance of a live session, filmed by El Hardwick, on Thursday (September 17) at 7.30pm BST / 2.30pm ET.

With synth-driven melodious pproviding the backdrop to singer Dana Margolin’s urgent, emotive vocals, ‘7 Seconds’ marks a continuation of what has been a breakthrough year for the Brighton band, which includes a Mercury Music Prize nomination for their album 'Every Bad'.

“'7 Seconds' started out sounding really different to how it sounds now," says Margolin. "A few years ago I wrote a really slow, long and drawn out song about the end of something that was never right. I was sitting with Sam [Yardley, drummer] early last year and I played it to him and asked him if he could help me make it less miserable. He wrote the main keyboard riff almost immediately and it came together really quickly after that; we re-structured and re-arranged it and added the end part, which I think of lyrically as a kind of conversation between two different versions of myself.”