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Ahead of New Music Friday, Squid unveiled O Monolith all the way back in February after first beginning work on it during the touring behind 2021 debut Bright Green Field.
“Without that tour we wouldn’t have any of these tracks,” Ollie Judge remembered.
People were so looking forward to seeing live music that we thought we could just play anything, even if it was unfinished. In some form or another we played about 80% of O Monolith, mostly without lyrics.
“There’s a running theme of the relation of people to the environment throughout,” Louis Borlase added. “There are allusions to the world we became so immersed in, environmental emergency, the role of domesticity, and the displacement you feel when you’re away for a long time.”