New Music: Building 650

           

Squid shares their second single "Building 650" taken from their third studio album "Coward", another vibrant track that sounds a lot like a Sonic Youth song until the strings arrive, Ollie Judge commented: is a song inspired by our first ever trip to Japan. We played the Summersonic festival in 2022. Luckily, we were booked to play two 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, itʼs hectic and full of people, but when you listen itʼs eerily quiet. Longtime Squid collaborator Felix Green co-directed the "Building 65" video with Japanese filmmakers Daisuke Hasegawa and Kuya Tatsujo.