Squid share new single ‘Undergrowth’ and announce 2024 North American tour
nme.comSquid have announced a 2024 North American tour and have shared ‘Undergrowth’, the second single from their forthcoming album ‘O Monolith’.Following on the launch single ‘Swing (In A Dream)‘, latest track ‘Undergrowth’ was inspired by an episode of Twin Peaks.“I really got into animism, the idea that spirits can live in inanimate objects,” shared drummer and singer Oille Judge. “I was watching Twin Peaks, and there was the episode where Josie Packard’s spirit goes into a chest of drawers.”He continued: “So ‘Undergrowth’ was written from the perspective of me being reincarnated as a bedside table in the afterlife, and how the thought of being reincarnated as an inanimate object would be dreadful. ‘This isn’t what I wanted/ So many options to be disappointed’.“Even though I’m in no way religious I don’t think anyone who isn’t religious is confident enough to not have had the fleeting thought of ‘Fuck, what if there is an afterlife?
What if I’m going to Hell?’” he added.Along with the new single, the band have also released a companion video game reminiscent of Super Mario Bros and Space Invaders where you play as a wooden cabinet, collecting coins and shooting aliens.A post shared by Squid (@squidbanduk)‘O Monolith’ is set for release on June 9 via WARP Records.
Speaking to NME about the sound of the new record earlier this year, Judge explained that “it’s quite proggy – for better or worse” as they enter their “Daft Punk era”.“We’re leaning a lot more into experimental song structures,” he said. “When I was having a really hard time writing lyrics and the album, I saw this tweet from Missy Elliot saying ‘Don’t make a second album that sounds like your first – just go fucking nuts’.
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