Squid by Michelle Helena Janssen
Squid release O Monolith on June 9th.
Squid have shared their latest new album single Undergrowth.
“I really got into animism, the idea that spirits can live in inanimate objects,” Ollie Judge has said of the lyrical themes contained in the track.
I was watching Twin Peaks, and there was the episode where Josie Packard’s spirit goes into a chest of drawers. So Undergrowth was written from the perspective of me being reincarnated as a bedside table in the afterlife, and how the thought of being reincarnated as an inanimate object would be dreadful. ‘This isn’t what I wanted/ So many options to be disappointed’.
“Even though I’m in no way religious I don’t think anyone who isn’t religious is confident enough to not have had the fleeting thought of ‘Fuck, what if there is an afterlife? What if I’m going to Hell?’.”