- 2025-02-05
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MUSIC
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Squid Releases New Song “Cro-Magnon Man”
London-based post-punk band Squid, consisting of Ollie Judge (vocals/drums), Louis Borlase (guitar), Arthur Leadbetter (keyboards), Laurie Nankivell (bass) and Anton Pearson (guitar), will release their upcoming third studio album “Cowards” this Friday (February 7th) via Warp Records.
From the album, the band released the third and final pre-release single called “Cro-Magnon Man” on February 4, 2025.
The track was written by Anton Pearson, Arthur Leadbetter, Laurie Nankivell, Louis Borlase, and Ollie Judge.
Produced by Marta Salogni, Grace Banks, and Dan Carey.
The band bassist Laurie Nankivell told Apple Music about the song, “Halfway through writing the album, it became really noticeable that we were talking about people more than places and caricatures. I'd come across this book in a charity shop, one of those quite dated 1970s picture books from science, and I was really struck by this outdated idea aesthetically of a figurehead of humankind and modernity that is…well you can't ascribe the word tacky to it because we're humans and Cro-Magnon people were the first early modern humans in Europe. It's this idea of exploring a story of a pathetic self, a kind of hopeless case but for something that we're also genetically based on, exploring the idea of the cave that the Cro-Magnon man lives in. Caves are always referred to and explored by psychologists as being representative of our mind, what we repress and what we can't deal with.”- The new album comprises 9 songs, produced by Marta Salogni and Grace Banks, with additional production from Dan Carey.
It is their first album in two years since the 2023 album “O Monolith”.
The band guitarist Louis Borlase said of the album, “Doing something slightly more melodic and expansive was definitely something we had in mind. [During the songwriting process] we were kind of riding the wave and we didn't have to stop and look around as much to make active decisions on how to let a certain idea come and go. It did feel like stuff was happening by itself. I think it's the best record we've made.” -
Laurie Nankivell said, “It's fucking difficult, it takes many years to figure out a collective language you can share with five of us, and we have managed that musically, to feed off each other.”
Lead single and drummer Ollie Judge said, “We did want to simplify some aspects of this record. That was kind of a springboard to focus a bit more on classic-y songwriting.”
Photo by Harrison Fishman - source : Apple Music
