Squid Announce New Album O Monolith, Share Video for New Song: Watch

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Squid Announce New Album O Monolith, Share Video for New Song: Watch

“Swing (In a Dream)” leads the British band’s Bright Green Field follow-up, coming to Warp this spring

Squid have announced their second album: O Monolith is due out June 9 via Warp. Ahead of the release, the band has shared a new track called “Swing (In a Dream).” It comes with a video directed by Yoonha Park. Check it out below, along with the artwork and tracklist for O Monolith, plus the band’s upcoming European tour dates.

In a statement accompanying the single, frontman Ollie Judge said that the song was inspired by a dream he had involving the Jean-Honoré Fragonard painting The Swing. “In my dream, I was in the painting, but it was flooded and everything was floating away,” he said.

Squid released their debut album, Bright Green Field, in 2021. The album was followed by the band’s inaugural U.S. tour, for which they unveiled a cover of the Bill Callahan song “America!” to mark the occasion. “We wanted to release something special just in time for us heading over to tour the U.S.A.,” they said at the time.

Read more about Bright Green Field in Pitchfork’s rundown of “The 31 Best Rock Albums of 2021.”

O Monolith:

01 “Swing (In a Dream)”
02 “Devil’s Den”
03 “Siphon Song”
04 “Undergrowth”
05 “The Blades”
06 “After the Flash”
07 “Green Light”

Squid:

05-05 Wrexhman, Wales – Focus Wales
06-18 Wicklow, Ireland – Beyond The Pale
06-30 Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
07-02 Lars, Germany – Fusion
07-21 Hertfordshire, United Kingdom – Standon Calling
07-22 Oxfordshire, United Kingdom – Truck Festival
08-16 Coura, Portugal – Praia Fluvial do Taboão
08-18 Brecon, Wales – Green Man
09-02 Vlieland, Netherlands – Into The Great Wide Open
10-13 – 10-14 Bristol, United Kingdom – SWX
10-16 Birmingham, United Kingdom – Town Hall
10-17 Leeds, United Kingdom – O2 Academy Leeds
10-19 Manchester, United Kingdom – New Century
10-21 Glasgow, United Kingdom – Barrowland Ballroom
10-22 Newcastle, United Kingdom – Boiler Shop
11-01 London, United Kingdom – Troxy

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