With their eagerly-awaited new album now less than a month away, Squid have now dropped the next cut to be lifted from their forthcoming full-length.
The new single 'Building 650' comes accompanied by a stunning new video, directed by longtime collaborator Felix Geen who shot the video in Japan alongside local directors Daisuke Hasegawa and Kuya Tatsujo, and follows on from the previously shared effort 'Crispy Skin' in previewing their third LP 'Cowards', which is out on the 7th February via Warp.
Speaking about the new offering, the band's Ollie Judge said, “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.”
Watch the new video for 'Building 650' in the player below.
