Squid playing the London Troxy in November 2023 (Adam Hampton-Matthews)
Squid were in London on November 1st.
Squid will wrap up warm and head to Reykjavík for the Iceland Airwaves Festival this weekend before a tour of North America at the start of 2024 in support of this year’s O Monolith album, itself a product of life on the road as the band sketched its path during the touring of their debut LP 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.”
