Squid will release new album ‘O Monolith’ on June 9th.
The band’s debut album won huge acclaim on its release, sparking trans-Atlantic tour dates. Entering the studio last year to build a follow-up, Squid recently returned with excellent comeback single ‘Swing (In A Dream)’.
Produced came from long-term collaborator Dan Carey, who steers Squid’s incoming second album. Out on June 9th via Warp Records, new album ‘O Monolith’ features eight tracks that push the band to their limits.
Out now, new single ‘Undergrowth’ opens with some neat jazz fusion bass lines, the tumbling percussion having a gleefully infectious appeal. The spiky guitars recall early Tortoise, before blasting outwards into a hyper-active display of creativity.
Squid’s Ollie Judge says of the song…
“I really got into animism, the idea that spirits can live in inanimate objects. I was watching Twin Peaks, and there was the episode where Josie Packard’s spirit goes into a chest of drawers. So ‘Undergrowth’ was written from the perspective of me being reincarnated as a bedside table in the afterlife, and how the thought of being reincarnated as an inanimate object would be dreadful. ‘This isn’t what I wanted/ So many options to be disappointed.’ Even though I’m in no way religious I don’t think anyone who isn’t religious is confident enough to not have had the fleeting thought of ‘Fuck, what if there is an afterlife? What if I’m going to Hell?’”
Intriguingly, there’s a full ‘Undergrowth’ computer game online – which you can play right now – and a full video directed by Squid guitarist Louis Borlase.
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Michelle Helena Janssen