Here’s how to self-isolate like Porches
Friday, March 13 was a significant day for Aaron Maine, the producer and vocalist behind electronic project Porches, for two reasons. The most obvious reason, of course, is that it was the day he released Ricky Music, his warm and compelling follow-up to 2018’s The House. The second reason: it was also the day he realized the coronavirus pandemic was going to affect his life more than he initially thought. “I don’t think a lot of people believed it was going to end up being like this,” he tells me over the phone from his Manhattan apartment. “I went out to dinner with one friend that night, and that was the last outing I’ve had... It’s such an unimaginable scenario. Here we are inside, making this shit up as we go along.”