Squid have shared their ambitious new ‘Building 650’ video.
The ever-creative band will release a new album in 2025, with ‘Cowards’ set to land on February 8th through Warp Records.
The second single to be unveiled from the LP has just gone live, with ‘Building 650’ spotlighting the cellular nature of Squid’s songwriting; daring in its complexity yet somehow feeling utterly unified, it underlines the band’s continued originality.
Squid’s Ollie Judge on the single…
“It’s a song inspired by our first ever trip to Japan. We played the Summersonic festival in 2022, luckily we were booked to play 2 days after the COVID travel ban had been lifted, because of this we felt like some of the only tourists in Tokyo. On the plane I read in the Miso Soup by Ryu Murikami and watched Lost in Translation out of excitement and later decided to write lyrics about being an outsider visiting Japan, including a very particular type of loneliness one can feel visiting a country that is so different from their own. This loneliness feels exaggerated in Tokyo, on the surface it’s hectic and full of people but when you listen, it’s eerily quiet.”
Appropriately, the video was shot in Japan – with longtime collaborator Felix Geen working alongside local directors Daisuke Hasegawa and Kuya Tatsujo. Ollie continues…
“I feel that the whole video came together very nicely with the human touch added by Daisuke and Kuya. I got to have my fun with the expansive and deconstructed city shots, and it was all brought back down to earth and grounded by the raw and natural 8mm film work from them.”
Tune in now.
