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In June, the UK crew Squid are releasing a brand new album, O Monolith, the follow-up to their 2021 debut Bright Green Field. They introduced it again in February with “Swing (In A Dream),” and right this moment they’re again with a second single from it, “Undergrowth.” “I really got into animism, the idea that spirits can live in inanimate objects,” the group’s drummer and vocalist Ollie Judge defined in a press release, persevering with:
I used to be watching Twin Peaks, and there was the episode the place Josie Packard’s spirit goes right into a chest of drawers. So ‘Undergrowth’ was written from the angle of me being reincarnated as a bedside desk within the afterlife, and the way the considered being reincarnated as an inanimate object could be dreadful. ‘This isn’t what I wished/ So many choices to be disenchanted.’ Even although I’m under no circumstances non secular I don’t suppose anybody who isn’t non secular is assured sufficient to not have had the fleeting considered ‘Fuck, what if there is an afterlife? What if I’m going to Hell?’
“Undergrowth” comes with a visualizer directed by the band’s Louis Borlaise, and it additionally comes with a online game impressed by the observe, which you’ll take a look at right here. Squid have additionally introduced a string of North American tour dates that may happen subsequent 12 months. Check out “Undergrowth” under.
TOUR DATES:
05/05 Wrexhman, WS @ Focus Wales
06/18 Wicklow, IE @ Beyond The Pale
06/30 Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter
07/02 Lars, DE @ Fusion
07/21 Hertfordshire, UK @ Standon Calling
07/22 Oxfordshire, UK @ Truck Festival
08/16 Portugal, ES @ Paredes De Coura
08/18 Brecon, WS @ Green Man
09/02 Vlieland, NL @ Into The Great Wide Open
09/05 Cologne, DE @ Katine
09/06 Esch-sur-Alzette, LU @ Rockhal
09/07 Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
09/08 Utecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg ROnda
09/09 Hamburg, DE @ Knust
09/11 Aarhus, DK @ Voxhall
09/12 Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
09/13 Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
09/15 Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz
09/16 Zurich, CH @ Mascotte
09/19 Milan, IT @ Santeria
09/21 Barcelona, ES @ Sala Apollo 2
09/22 Valencia, ES @ Jerusalem
09/23 Madrid, ES @ Sala Copérnico
09/24 Bordeaux, FR @ Rock School Barbey
09/25 Paris, FR @ Elysée Montmartre
09/27 Rouen, FR @ Le 106
10/13 Bristol, UK @ SWX
10/14 Bristol, UK @ SWX
10/16 Birmingham, UK @ Town Hall
10/17 Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy Leeds
10/19 Manchester, UK @ New Century
10/21 Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland Ballroom
10/22 Newcastle, UK @ Boiler Shop
11/01 London, UK @ Troxy
02/02 Austin, TX @ The Parish
02/03 Dallas, TX @ Dada
02/05 Nashville, TN @ Basement East
02/06 Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
02/08 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
02/09 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
02/10 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
02/14 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
02/15 Montreal, QC @ SAT
02/16 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
02/18 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
02/19 Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
02/23 Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
02/24 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
02/25 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
02/27 San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
02/29 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
03/01 Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco
O Monolith is out 6/9 by way of Warp.