Last night (February 9), Squid premiered the tracks for their upcoming second album ‘O Monolith’ during a one-off show at SCALA in London. Check out the photos, images, and tracklist below.
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As announced this week, the band’s second album will arrive on June 9 via WARP. They released the follow-up to 2021’s famous “Bright Green Field” with lead single “Swing (In A Dream)”.
Squid was originally scheduled to headline SCALA in April 2020, following the release of their 2019 EP “Town Centre”, the songs from which were conspicuously absent last night. Scheduled to be their first gig in London, the gig was postponed due to closures and temporarily scrapped, making way for an updated tour schedule centered on ‘Bright Green Field’, before announcing their eventual arrival at the venue. of King’s Cross.
Nearly three years later, the band finally showed up at SCALA to give fans their first look at “O Monolith,” releasing a more complex and deliberately edgy incarnation of Squid.
Squid played:
‘Brushwood’
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‘GSK’
‘Bank’
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‘Devil’s Lair’
“After the Lightning”
‘Peel St’
“Documentary Filmmaker”
“Field work”
‘Narrator’
‘Swing (in a dream)’
Squid will also embark on a new tour in October, following a summer of festival dates. Tickets will go on sale from 10:00 a.m. on February 16 and will be available here.
Squid will play:
October 2023
13 – Bristol, SWX
14 – Bristol, SWX
16 – Birmingham, City Hall
17 – Leeds, O2 Academy
18 – Manchester, New Century
21 – Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom
22 – Newcastle, Boilerworks
November 2023
1 – London, Troxy
In a five-star review of ‘Bright Green Field’, NME said: “From their earliest material, it was clear that Squid could only realize their full potential when given an album canvas, on which to tell a story. story that comes and goes at the pace and path they dictate.