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Squid have shared their new single 'Building 650' and announced some UK tour dates

Squid unveil their Japan-inspired single 'Building 650' and announce 14-date UK tour supporting upcoming album 'Cowards'.

Squid have shared their new single 'Building 650' and announced some UK tour dates
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8 Jan 2025 • 9:29 pm
Squid have shared new single 'Building 650' and announced a series of UK headline shows for 2025.

The track arrives ahead of their third studio album 'Cowards', set for release via Warp Records on 7th February. The new single follows previously released track 'Crispy Skin'.

Frontman Ollie Judge explains that 'Building 650' was inspired by the band's first visit to Japan. "We played the Summersonic festival in 2022, luckily we were booked to play 2 days after the COVID travel ban had been lifted, because of this we felt like some of the only tourists in Tokyo," he says. "On the plane I read In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murikami and watched Lost in Translation out of excitement and later decided to write lyrics about being an outsider visiting Japan, including a very particular type of loneliness one can feel visiting a country that is so different from their own. This loneliness feels exaggerated in Tokyo, on the surface it's hectic and full of people but when you listen, it's eerily quiet."

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18 O2 Ritz, Manchester, UK
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