Squid announce second album with tense video for 'Swing (In a Dream)'

Squid have announced their second album by sharing a claustrophobic new track called 'Swing (In a Dream).'

The Brighton band's new LP O Monolith is due out June 9 via Warp. 'Swing (In a Dream)' has arrived with a video directed by Yoonha Park.

In a statement accompanying the single, Squid frontman Ollie Judge said that the song was inspired by a dream he had involving the Jean-Honoré Fragonard painting The Swing.

“In my dream, I was in the painting, but it was flooded and everything was floating away,” he said.

The accompanying music video features Squid’s friends and family in a take on Where’s Wally. “I was interested in exploring visual ideas from Where’s Waldo, Richard Scarry and Brueghel as a means to express anxieties about the climate crisis,” Park said.

The new record will follow the band’s 2021 debut Bright Green Field, which saw them chart in the Top 5 of the Official UK Albums Chart.

Check it out below, along with the artwork and tracklist for O Monolith, plus the band’s upcoming European tour dates. Catch them play Wicklow's Beyond The Pale festival on June 18th.

O Monolith:

01 Swing (In a Dream)
02 Devil’s Den
03 Siphon Song
04 Undergrowth
05 The Blades
06 After the Flash
07 Green Light
08 If You Had Seen The Bull’s Swimming Attempts You Would Have Stayed Away

Squid Tour Dates

05-05 Wrexhman, Wales - Focus Wales
06-18 Wicklow, Ireland - Beyond The Pale
06-30 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter
07-02 Lars, Germany - Fusion
07-21 Hertfordshire, United Kingdom - Standon Calling
07-22 Oxfordshire, United Kingdom - Truck Festival
08-16 Coura, Portugal - Praia Fluvial do Taboão
08-18 Brecon, Wales - Green Man
09-02 Vlieland, Netherlands - Into The Great Wide Open
10-13 - 10-14 Bristol, United Kingdom - SWX
10-16 Birmingham, United Kingdom - Town Hall
10-17 Leeds, United Kingdom - O2 Academy Leeds
10-19 Manchester, United Kingdom - New Century
10-21 Glasgow, United Kingdom - Barrowland Ballroom
10-22 Newcastle, United Kingdom - Boiler Shop
11-01 London, United Kingdom - Troxy