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Squid Release New Single “Cro-Magnon Man”

Cowards Due Out This Friday via Warp

Feb 04, 2025 Photography by Harrison Fishman

British experimental post-punk five-piece Squid are releasing a new album, Cowards, this Friday via Warp. Now they have released its third single, “Cro-Magnon Man.” The song features vocals from guitarist Louis Borlase alongside guest vocalists Clarissa Connelly, Tony Njoku, and Rosa Brook. Listen below.

Previously Squid released the album’s lead single, album opener “Crispy Skin,” via a music video. It was one of our Songs of the Week. Then they released its second single, “Building 650,” with an accompanying music video.

Cowards is Squid’s third album and the follow-up to 2023’s O Monolith and 2001’s debut album, Bright Green Field. Squid features Louis Borlase, Ollie Judge, Arthur Leadbetter, Laurie Nankivell, and Anton Pearson.

Cowards was recorded at Church Studios in Crouch End, London with Mercury prize winning producer Marta Salogni and Grace Banks. Longtime collaborator Dan Carey, who recorded the band’s first two albums, provided additional production. John McEntire (of Tortoise) mixed the album and Heba Kadry mastered it.

Of the new album, Borlase said in a previous press release: “We were thinking of an album of great songwriting. Simple ideas that resonate in a very different way to O Monolith, which was dense and complex.”

Judge added: “Touring fed into this record in a way that I didn’t initially realize. Every song has a specific place anchored to it, places that all five of us have visited together, like New York, Tokyo, and Eastern Europe.”

Read our 2021 interview with Squid.

Squid Tour Dates:

Mon. Feb. 17 - Liverpool, UK @ Invisible Wind Factory
Tue. Feb. 18 - Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz Manchester
Wed. Feb. 19 - Glasgow, UK @ Old Fruitmarket
Fri. Feb. 21 - Newcastle, UK @ NSU Domain
Sat. Feb. 22 - Sheffield, UK @ Leadmill
Mon. Feb 24 - Cambridge, UK @ Junction 1
Tue. Feb 25 - Norwich, UK @ The Adrian Flux Waterfront
Thu. Feb. 27 - Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy Oxford
Fri. Feb. 28 - Southampton, UK @ Engine Rooms
Sat. March 1 - Margate, UK @ Lido
Sun. March 2 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk
Tue. March 4 - Birmingham, UK @ XOYO
Wed. March 5 - Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon
Wed. April 9 - Paris, FR @ Cabaret Sauvage
Thu. April 10 - Cologne, DE @ Club Volta
Fri. April 11 - Dresden, DE @ Polimagie Festival
Sat. April 12 - Berlin, DE @ Lido
Mon. April 14 - Schorndorf, DE @ Manufaktur
Tue. April 15 - Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
Wed. April 16 - Antwerp, BE @ Trix
Fri. April 18 - Rotterdam, NL @ Motel Mozaique Festival
Sat. April 19 - Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
Sat. April 26 - London, UK @ Roundhouse

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