Squid Announce New Album Cowards, Share Video for New Tune “Crispy Pores and skin”: Watch

Squid are again with a brand new album. Cowards, the follow-up to their second album, O Monolith, arrives February 7, 2025, through Warp. It comes with a video for “Crispy Pores and skin,” from Takashi Ito, tailored from his 1995 quick movie Zone. Test that out beneath.

Contributors to the LP embody Clarissa Connelly, Tony Njoku, Pozi’s Rosa Brook, percussionist Zands Duggan, and the Ruisi Quartet. Marta Salogni and Grace Banks produced the LP alongside the band and Dan Carey. Earlier than heading out on a European tour behind the file—discover these dates beneath—the band performs a sold-out New York present tonight.

“Crispy Pores and skin,” Ollie Decide mentioned in a press launch, “was lyrically impressed by a dystopian novel Tender Is The Flesh I learn the place cannibalism turns into the societal norm and people are manufactured and bought in supermarkets. I believe when most individuals learn books like these they image themselves because the type of individual that may take the ethical high-ground inside these narratives. The monitor was written about how the fact of getting a moral-compass in these tales of desperation and horror could be extraordinarily tough.” He added, “If I used to be really in that world, I most likely could be the coward on this occasion.”

Ito known as the video “a movie a couple of man with out a face. His legs and arms sure with ropes, nonetheless with out even a quiver in a white room. This man, enwrapped in wild delusions, can also be a reconstruction of myself. A collection of surprising scenes on this room that expresses what lies inside me. I attempted to create a connection between reminiscences, nightmares and violent pictures.”

Cowards:

01 Crispy Pores and skin
02 Constructing 650
03 Blood on the Boulders
04 Fieldworks I
05 Fieldworks II
06 Cro-Magnon Man
07 Cowards
08 Showtime!
09 Properly Met (Fingers By way of the Fence)

Squid:

11-12 New York, NY – Drom
02-17 Liverpool, England – Invisible Wind Manufacturing facility
02-18 Manchester, England – O2 Ritz Manchester
02-19 Glasgow, Scotland – Previous Fruitmarket
02-21 Newcastle, England – NSU Area
02-22 Sheffield, England – Leadmill
02-24 Cambridge, England – Junction 1
02-25 Norwich, England – The Adrian Flux Waterfront
02-27 Oxford, England – O2 Academy Oxford
02-28 Southampton, England – Engine Rooms
03-01 Margate, England – Lido
03-02 Brighton, England – Chalk
03-04 Birmingham, England – XOYO Birmingham
03-05 Bristol, England – Bristol Beacon
04-09 Paris, France – Cabaret Sauvage
04-10 Cologne, Germany – Membership Volta
04-11 Dresden, Germany – Polimagie Competition
04-12 Berlin, Germany – Lido
04-14 Schorndorf, Germany – Manufaktur
04-15 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg
04-16 Antwerp, Belgium – Trix
04-18 Rotterdam, Netherlands – Motel Mozaique Competition
04-19 Nijmegen, Netherlands – Doornroosje
04-26 London, England – Roundhouse

Squid: “Cowards” Tour 2025