O Monolith LP (Color) fg_Vinyl Color_Tan now reflects a powerful vocal

now reflects a powerful vocal style from an artist with a strong sense of purpose in sharing the silver lining of his survival

Helmed by foil vocalists in Durand Jones and drummer Aaron Frazer

and string sections

Profoundly personal and vibrantly textured

and legendary songwriter and keyboard player Donnie Fritts

O Monolith LP (Color) fg_Vinyl Color_Tan now reflects a powerful vocalTeeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squid's second album O Monolith is a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self made folklore. Like its predecessor, 2021's critically acclaimed, UK number 4 album Bright Green Field, it is dense and tricksy but also more warm and characterful, with a meandering, questioning nature. A sense of open conversation is cultivated: this is unmistakably music made by friends, but it's not