Squid have shared a model new track and video – try the Charlotte Ritchie-starring visible for ‘The Blades’ beneath.
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The observe is the newest preview to be taken from the band’s upcoming second LP ‘O Monolith’, which is due out on June 9 through Warp.
Of the brand new track, drummer/vocalist Ollie Decide mentioned: “It’s much more weak than stuff we’ve beforehand accomplished, which might be fairly a frightening factor. Dan [Carey] and I had been speaking about vocal supply and the way it might be good to not fully let myself go, and never fall again on shouting as a result of it’s extra immediately gratifying. The tip of the track is absolutely tender and tender and I don’t suppose we’ve accomplished one thing like that earlier than.
“On the floor it’s a track about police brutality with the final part form of impressed by The Inform Story Coronary heart by Edgar Allen Poe, though I’ve by no means learn the ebook, I’ve simply seen The Simpsons’ spoof of it. Narratively it follows a police helicopter pilot’s day, ending with him in mattress listening to one other pilot circling the skies as if he had been taunting him. There’s a deeper which means in there someplace of my worry of ego, however I’m nonetheless figuring out which little bit of the track that’s coming from.”
Try the brand new video beneath.
Up to now, the album has been previewed by singles ‘Swing (In A Dream)’ and ‘Undergrowth’, and Decide not too long ago instructed NME of what to anticipate of the follow-up to 2021 debut ‘Brilliant Inexperienced Subject’.
“We’re leaning much more into experimental track constructions,” he continued. “After I was having a very exhausting time writing lyrics and the album, I noticed this tweet from Missy Elliot saying ‘Don’t make a second album that seems like your first – simply go fucking nuts’” he mentioned. “It’s undoubtedly tougher to play stay.”
The band are set to go out on a UK and Eire headline tour later this yr, with tickets obtainable right here.
Squid will play:
OCTOBER 2023
13 – Bristol, SWX
14 – Bristol SWX
16 – Birmingham, City Corridor
17 – Leeds, O2 Academy
18 – Manchester, New Century
21 – Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom
22 – Newcastle, Boiler Store
NOVEMBER 2023
1 – London, Troxy
