Squid announce new album O Monolith

“This was inspired by a dream I had about a painting called The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard,” Squid’s Ollie Judge has said of the lead single.

Squid will release their new album O Monolith on June 9th and have picked Swing (In A Dream) as its first preview.

The band began work on the follow-up to 2021’s debut album Bright Green Field just a short time after its release, working on new material whilst out on tour: “Without that tour we wouldn’t have any of these tracks,” 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.”

This latent material continued to be worked upon in rehearsal rooms around Bristol, and was later rounded off at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios in Wiltshire.

O Monolith tracklist:

Swing (In A Dream)
Devil’s Den
Siphon Song
Undergrowth
The Blades
After The Flash
Green Light
If You Had Seen The Bull’s Swimming Attempts You Would Have Stayed Away