Squid share new Japan-inspired single Building 650, announce UK tour
· louderBy Paul Brannigan
published 9 January 2025
Squid share second taste of forthcoming third album Cowards
Squid have shared a new single, Building 650, as the second preview of their forthcoming album Cowards. The quintet have also announced UK shows for spring.
Cowards is set for release via Warp Records on February 7, and Building 650 is the follow-up to the album's first single, Crispy Skin, which was released in November.
"It’s a song inspired by our first ever trip to Japan," says frontman Ollie Judge. "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 video for Building 650 below:
Squid - Building 650 (Official Video) - YouTube
The band's UK tour will see them visit:
Feb 17: Liverpool Invisible Wind Factory
Feb 18: Manchester O2 Ritz
Feb 19: Glasgow Old Fruitmarket
Feb 21: Newcastle NSU Domain
Feb 22: Sheffield Leadmill
Feb 24: Cambridge Junction 1
Feb 25: Norwich The Adrian Flux Waterfront
Feb 27: Oxford O2 Academy
Feb 28: Southampton Engine Rooms
Mar 01: Margate, Lido
Mar 02: Brighton Chalk
Mar 04: Birmingham XOYO
Mar 05: Bristol Beacon
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Apr 26: London Roundhouse
Tickets for the tour are on sale now, here
Paul Brannigan
Contributing Editor, Louder
A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.
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