Squid have announced their sophomore LP, O Monolith. The follow-up to 2021’s Bright Green Field lands on June 9 via Warp. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the lead single ‘Swing (In a Dream)’, which is accompanied by a Yoonha Park-directed video. Check it out below, and scroll for the album’s cover artwork, tracklist, and Squid’s upcoming tour dates.
‘O Monolith’ was inspired by a dream singer and drummer Ollie Judge had about the Jean-Honoré Fragonard painting The Swing. “In my dream, I was in the painting but it was flooded and everything was floating away,” he explained in a statement.
Squid recorded Monolith at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios. Longtime collaborator Dan Carey produced the LP, which was mixed by Tortoise’s John McEntire and features contributions from Martha Skye Murphy (who appeared on the Bright Green Field highlight ‘Narrator’) and Roger Bolton. “There’s a running theme of the relation of people to the environment throughout,” the band’s Louis Borlase said. “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.”
O Monolith Cover Artwork:
O Monolith Tracklist:
1. Swing (In A Dream)
2. Devil’s Den
3. Siphon Song
4. Undergrowth
5. The Blades
6. After The Flash
7. Green Light
8. If You Had Seen The Bull’s Swimming Attempts You Would Have Stayed Away
Squid 2023 Tour Dates:
May 5 – Wrexhman, WS – Focus Wales
Jun 18 – Wicklow, IE – Beyond The Pale
Jun 30 – Werchter, BE – Rock Werchter
Jul 2 – Lars, DE – Fusion
Jul 21 – Hertfordshire, UK – Standon Calling
Jul 22 – Oxfordshire, UK – Truck Festival
Aug 16 – Portugal, ES – Paredes De Coura
Aug 18 – Brecon, WS – Green Man
Sep 2 – Vlieland, NL – Into The Great Wide Open
Oct 13 – Bristol, UK – SWX
Oct 14 – Bristol, UK – SWX
Oct 16 – Birmingham, UK – Town Hall
Oct 17 – Leeds, UK – O2 Academy Leeds
Oct 19 – Manchester, UK – New Century
Oct 21 – Glasgow, UK – Barrowland Ballroom
Oct 22 – Newcastle, UK – Boiler Shop
Nov 1 – London, UK – Troxy