Squid by Machine Operated
Squid have signed to Warp Records and released their new single Sludge.
Part of a bumper 2019 which spoiled us rotten, at the end of it all Squid were included on Live4ever’s Best Of retrospective thanks to the Town Centre EP; “Lots of bands, in the privacy of their own notions, probably think they sound a bit like Talking Heads,” our review reads.
“On The Cleaner, Squid sound a bit like Talking Heads. The great news is that the bit they nail is the essence of what made the New Yorkers so ground breaking, capturing the bone-dry, epically taut funk which boiled everything down fierce angles and a refusal to compromise. By extension, it touches greatness.”
“Orbiting that are tunes like Match Bet, about a Sonic Youth obsessed customer of a shop singer Ollie Judge used to work in – like everything in the Squid multiverse, it begins as one thing (not too out of the ordinary indie pop) and finishes as something different (trumpet laden psychedelia). Moribund instrumental opener Savage isn’t the slash-and-burn white noise epic its title promises, while Rodeo has the blunted, hallucinogenic charm which makes the Beta Band’s early work so prized.”
