Squid by Machine Operated
Our Track Of The Week comes from Squid with their first single of the year, Sludge.
It comes after the have signed to Warp Records in the wake of 2019’s Town Centre EP, one which put them right at the heart of a bumper twelve months for British and Irish music; “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.”
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