Porchlight – Richer

Porchlight returns after two years with “Richer”, a self-produced and self-released track that marks the start of new music from the band. They recorded it between bedrooms and rehearsal rooms over the past year, with drums tracked at Brockley Studios and mastering by Noah Priddle.

The song builds around the image of a driver with a throttle foot stuck down, pressure building as perspiration gets richer. He’s got a crescent moon scar from brow to gullet, never breaking, never stopping. The lyrics track his journey as he drives too close to edges, ties himself up in wires, crashes into hedges.

The band uses this racing metaphor to capture something urgent and destructive, the kind of momentum that can’t be stopped until it ends badly. The production remains raw and direct, fitting for a track recorded in makeshift spaces rather than a proper studio.

Since their last release, the band members have moved cities, changed houses and jobs, even got new haircuts. They’re proud of the music they wrote during that period of transition, and “Richer” is the first piece of that work to surface.