Squid - O Monolith (Transparent Blue Vinyl) BEMU5543617.1Teeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squids second album O Monolith is a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self made folklore. Like its predecessor, 2021s critically acclaimed, UK number 4 album Bright Green Field, it is dense and tricksy but also more warm and characterful, with a meandering, questioning nature. A sense of open conversation is cultivated: this is unmistakably music made by friends, but its not
Martini Kiss
is regarded as Richard D
From the boundaries of folk
but to human nature itself
Ricky Nelson will forever be identified with the ageless single “Lonesome Town
contributing a stirring spoken word performance to the album’s “Abulia and Akrasia
and bangers like "In The Eyes of Our Love" - arguably one of the most immediate songs the band has ever written
a collection of songs that are simultaneously timeless and modern
The best part about recording all these tunes was that they reminded me of all the people who I haven’t been able to hang out with for the past two years because of the plague we’ve all been dealing with
Making the album I was thinking a lot about the lenses we view our lives through and that
worthy of the man who wrote "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace
Surprise vinyl color: Yellow or Blue
