O-Monolith

O-MonolithTeeming 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

weaving through her own introversion and heartbreak

All of Us Flames unleashes Furman's songwriting in an open

soldiers and other courageous people

as the encore of the band's Total Devo concert at The Palace in Hollywood

It's Just Wind is both a lifetime in the making and utterly impromptu

The artist who speaks in such a voice is urging us to do something

a medieval folk lute

" He refers to the album's "insolent experimentalism" and calls it a kind of "last stand

and radio sessions

Ghetto Bells has a powerful resonance that reveals itself slowly

The threads of our past never unravel

Deja Vu-DO or Modern malaise - whatever you want to call it