Squid have announced their second album, ‘O Monolith’

Squid's second album, 'O Monolith' is due to land on 9th June via Warp Records.

Alongside the news, the Brighton band have released the lead single 'Swing (In a Dream)' alongside a mesmerizing video directed by Yoonha Park.

The album was inspired by a dream frontman Ollie Judge had about the Jean-Honoré Fragonard painting The Swing. "In my dream, I was in the painting but it was flooded and everything was floating away," Judge explained.

The band recorded 'O Monolith' at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios, with longtime collaborator Dan Carey producing the album. It was mixed by Tortoise's John McEntire and features contributions from Martha Skye Murphy and Roger Bolton.

"There's a running theme of the relation of people to the environment throughout," said bassist Louis Borlase. "There are allusions to the world we became so immersed in, environmental emergency, the role of domesticity, and the displacement you feel when you're away for a long time."