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
08 If You Had Seen The Bull’s Swimming Attempts You Would Have Stayed Away
