Squid share shapeshifting new single ‘Building 650’

Art-rock cult favourites Squid have shared new track ‘Building 650’, the latest single to be lifted from their forthcoming third album ‘Cowards’ (due out on 7th February via WARP Records). 

Having introduced their next chapter back in November with LP opener ‘Crispy Skin’, with ‘Cowards’, the Bristol-based five-piece are set to embark on an exploration of evil: nine tracks about nine protagonists who all lie somewhere on morality’s murky spectrum. 

Speaking about their undulating, dynamic latest effort, the band’s Ollie Judge has shared: “It’s a song inspired by our first ever trip 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. 

“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.”

You can watch the Felix Geen-directed video for ‘Buidling 650’ - shot on location in Japan - below, as well as checking out Squid’s upcoming tour dates and ‘Cowards” full tracklist.