Cowards (CD)

The always thrilling UK post-punk outfit Squid have announced their brand spanking new album Cowards, and we are all ears. Due out this February through Warp, the album features new single Crispy Skin, which we encourage you to check out the Takashi Ito directed video for asap! Featuring the likes of Clarissa Connelly, Tony Njoku, Pozi’s Rosa Brook, percussionist Zands Duggan, and the Ruisi Quartet, the album is set to sound like nothing else you've heard. - Flying Out

Squid’s new album Cowards is about evil. Nine stories whose protagonists reckon with cults, charisma and apathy. Real and imagined characters wading into the dark ocean between right and wrong.

Cowards is Squid’s most courageous album: simultaneously growing in scope and returning to basics. The band recorded Cowards at Church Studios in Crouch End with Mercury prize winning producers Marta Salogni and Grace Banks. On additional production is longtime shifu and collaborator Dan Carey, who recorded the band’s first two albums. The record was mixed in Seattle by John McEntire, before being compressed by the rich analogue chain of Heba Kadry’s mastering in Brooklyn, New York. 

Tracklist

1. Building 650
2. Blood on the Boulders
3. Fieldworks I
4. Fieldworks II
5. Cro-Magnon Man
6. Cowards
7. Showtime!
8. Well Met (Fingers Through The Fence)