In June, the UK crew Squid are releasing a new album, O Monolith, the follow-up to their 2021 debut Bright Green Field. They announced it back in February with “Swing (In A Dream),” and today they’re back with a second single from it, “Undergrowth.” “I really got into animism, the idea that spirits can live in inanimate objects,” the group’s drummer and vocalist Ollie Judge explained in a statement, continuing:

I was watching Twin Peaks, and there was the episode where Josie Packard’s spirit goes into a chest of drawers. So ‘Undergrowth’ was written from the perspective of me being reincarnated as a bedside table in the afterlife, and how the thought of being reincarnated as an inanimate object would be dreadful. ‘This isn’t what I wanted/ So many options to be disappointed.’ Even though I’m in no way religious I don’t think anyone who isn’t religious is confident enough to not have had the fleeting thought of ‘Fuck, what if there is an afterlife? What if I’m going to Hell?’

“Undergrowth” comes with a visualizer directed by the band’s Louis Borlaise, and it also comes with a video game inspired by the track, which you can check out here. Squid have also announced a string of North American tour dates that will take place next year. Check out “Undergrowth” below.

TOUR DATES:
05/05 Wrexhman, WS @ Focus Wales
06/18 Wicklow, IE @ Beyond The Pale
06/30 Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter
07/02 Lars, DE @ Fusion
07/21 Hertfordshire, UK @ Standon Calling
07/22 Oxfordshire, UK @ Truck Festival
08/16 Portugal, ES @ Paredes De Coura
08/18 Brecon, WS @ Green Man
09/02 Vlieland, NL @ Into The Great Wide Open
09/05 Cologne, DE @ Katine
09/06 Esch-sur-Alzette, LU @ Rockhal
09/07 Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
09/08 Utecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg ROnda
09/09 Hamburg, DE @ Knust
09/11 Aarhus, DK @ Voxhall
09/12 Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
09/13 Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
09/15 Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz
09/16 Zurich, CH @ Mascotte
09/19 Milan, IT @ Santeria
09/21 Barcelona, ES @ Sala Apollo 2
09/22 Valencia, ES @ Jerusalem
09/23 Madrid, ES @ Sala Copérnico
09/24 Bordeaux, FR @ Rock School Barbey
09/25 Paris, FR @ Elysée Montmartre
09/27 Rouen, FR @ Le 106
10/13 Bristol, UK @ SWX
10/14 Bristol, UK @ SWX
10/16 Birmingham, UK @ Town Hall
10/17 Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy Leeds
10/19 Manchester, UK @ New Century
10/21 Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland Ballroom
10/22 Newcastle, UK @ Boiler Shop
11/01 London, UK @ Troxy
02/02 Austin, TX @ The Parish
02/03 Dallas, TX @ Dada
02/05 Nashville, TN @ Basement East
02/06 Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
02/08 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
02/09 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
02/10 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
02/14 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
02/15 Montreal, QC @ SAT
02/16 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
02/18 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
02/19 Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
02/23 Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
02/24 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
02/25 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
02/27 San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
02/29 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
03/01 Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco

O Monolith is out 6/9 via Warp.