Squid by Machine Operated
Squid have premiered their ‘isolation’ video for Sludge.
“After looking through all the videos it was really interesting to see how spatially different everyone’s situation is but how they’re all tied together through the same feeling of isolation,” they say of the promo. “Some videos were claustrophobic, others showed deserted cityscapes and some even featured other people but they all had a lingering feeling of loneliness and uncertainty.”
The band’s first single of the year, it contains all the hallmarks of the 2019 output which made Squid one of the most exciting British bands to emerge during a twelve months which seemed to bring a new one at every turn.
They are now signed to Warp Records after the Town Centre EP encapsulated all that potential and made Live4ever’s Best Of 2019 retrospective: “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.”
