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 tracklist for O Monolith, plus the band’s upcoming European tour dates.
In a statement accompanying the single, Squid 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 the group 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.,” Squid said at the time.
Read more about Bright Green Field in Pitchfork’s rundown of “The 31 Best Rock Albums of 2021.”
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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
08 If You Had Seen the Bull’s Swimming Attempts You Would Have Stayed Away
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, England - Standon Calling
07-22 Oxfordshire, England - Truck Festival
08-16 Coura, Portugal - Praia Fluvial do Taboão
08-18 Brecon, Wales - Green Man Festival
09-02 Vlieland, Netherlands - Into the Great Wide Open
10-13 Bristol, England - SWX
10-14 Bristol, England - SWX
10-16 Birmingham, England - Town Hall
10-17 Leeds, England - O2 Academy Leeds
10-19 Manchester, England - New Century
10-21 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland Ballroom
10-22 Newcastle upon Tyne, England - Boiler Shop
11-01 London, England - Troxy
