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Dana Margolin<\/a>, ex-frontperson of the Brighton rock outfit Porridge Radio<\/a>, has shared their first single as a solo artist. \u201cBig Beautiful Sound<\/a>\u201d is a spare acoustic ballad; according to press materials, Margolin set themselves a challenge that all of the song\u2019s elements had to fit on an 8-track record. Mike Mills and Joe Nankin directed the equally spartan, black-and-white video. Watch it below.<\/p>\n \u201cWe go all the way down together,\u201d Margolin said of \u201cBig Beautiful Sound\u201d in a press statement, \u201cdown 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\u2019t it fun, and right there at the deepest depths of the journey is a glowing ember, something luminous, a big and beautiful sound.\u201d<\/p>\n Before their breakup<\/a> in 2025, Porridge Radio released four studio albums over the span of nine years. Their last LP was 2024\u2019s Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me<\/em><\/a>, which they followed up with an EP\u2014The Machine Starts to Sing<\/em>\u2014culled from the Clouds<\/em> sessions.<\/p>\n Read about Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me<\/em> at No. 26 in The 30 Best Rock Albums of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n