Squid share details for second album, O Monolith

Watch the video for its first single now.

Squid have shared details for their upcoming album, O Monolith, due for release on June 9 via Warp Records.

O Monolith was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Wiltshire, “among lots of green space, just as spring was setting in”.

The follow-up to their 2021 debut album Bright Green Field was mixed by Tortoise’s John McEntire and sees Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey return as producer. It also features Roger Bolton and Martha Skye Murphy who previously collaborated on 2021 single “Narrator”.

Watch the music video for “Swing (In A Dream)” directed by Yoonha Park:

Speaking about the new single, drummer and singer Ollie Judge says: “This was inspired by a dream I had about a painting called The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. In my dream I was in the painting but it was flooded and everything was floating away.”

You can pre-order O Monolith on black or transparent blue vinyl now, ahead of its June 9 release.

Tracklist:
1. Swing (In A Dream
2. Devil’s Den
3. Siphon Song
4. Undergrowth
5. The Blades
6. After The Flash
7. Green Light
8. If You Had Seen The Bull’s Swimming Attempts You Would Have Stayed Away