Post-Punk Avant Garder rockers, Squid, have announced their sophomore album, O Monolith. The record releases June 9th via Warp Records. The record about "fears, whatever may or may not be beyond the skies, deaths, rats, and bedside cabinets" started being written while Squid was touring in 2021. Ollie Judge comments:
Without that tour we wouldn’t have any of these tracks. People were so looking forward to seeing live music that we thought we could just play anything, even if it was unfinished. In some form or another we played about
80% of O Monolith, mostly without lyrics.
Louis Borlase describes O Monolith as having:
[...] a running theme of the relation of people to the environment throughout. There are
allusions to the world we became so immersed in, environmental emergency, the role of
domesticity, and the displacement you feel when you’re away for a long time.
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You can check out the video for their new track, "Swing (In a Dream)" below:
Squid will be touring throughout The U.K. this Summer-Fall. Dates below:
Squid Tour Dates:
Fri. May 5 - Wrexhman, WS @ Focus Wales
Sun. June 18 - Wicklow, IE @ Beyond The Pale
Fri. June 30 - Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter
Sun. July 2 - Lars, DE @ Fusion
Fri. July 21 - Hertfordshire, UK @ Standon Calling
Sat. July 22 - Oxfordshire, UK @ Truck Festival
Wed. Aug. 16 - Portugal, ES @ Paredes De Coura
Fri. Aug. 18 - Brecon, WS @ Green Man
Sat. Sep. 2 - Vlieland, NL @ Into The Great Wide Open
Fri. Oct. 13 - Bristol, UK @ SWX
Sat. Oct. 14 - Bristol, UK @ SWX
Mon. Oct. 16 - Birmingham, UK @ Town Hall
Tue. Oct. 17 - Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy Leeds
Thu. Oct. 19 - Manchester, UK @ New Century
Sat. Oct. 21 - Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland Ballroom
Sun. Oct. 22 - Newcastle, UK @ Boiler Shop
Wed. Nov. 1 - London, UK @ Trox
