[ Warp / LP ]
Release Date: Friday 9 June 2023
One of UK's most innovative new bands, Squid, announce their sophomore album - O Monolith - out June 9 via Warp Records.
Teeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squid's second album O Monolith is a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self-made folklore. Like its predecessor, 2021's critically acclaimed, UK number 4 album Bright Green Field, it is dense and tricksy - but also more warm and characterful, with a meandering, questioning nature.
Expansive, evocative and hugely varied, O Monolith retains Squid's restless, enigmatic spirit, but it still holds surprises for those familiar with Bright Green Field. It's a reflection of the outsized progression of a band always looking to the future. Like its namesake, O Monolith is vast and strange; alive with endless possible interpretations of its inner mysteries.
Side A:
Swing (In A Dream)
Devil's Den
Siphon Song
Undergrowth
Side B:
The Blades
After The Flash
Green Light
If You Had Seen The Bull's Swimming Attempts You Would Have Stayed Away