Squid share dystopian single ‘Crispy Skin’ and announce new album ‘Cowards’

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Squid have announced details of a new album called ‘Cowards’, and shared lead single ‘Crispy Skin’. Check it out below.Marking their third studio album, ‘Cowards’ is set for release on February 7, and explores nine stories where protagonists reckon with cults, charisma and apathy – with the band exploring the divide between right and wrong.It is also set to see Squid push the boundaries of their sound, with the English art rock quintet exploring inspirations of folk, kosmische, psychedelia, jazz and electronics.To celebrate the announcement, the band have shared the first preview of the record in the form of lead single ‘Crispy Skin’.

The song comes as the opening track for the LP, and takes on inspiration from a dystopian world.“Am I the bad one? / Yep, yes I am / I couldn’t eat another thing / No more pages and pages of crispy skin,” sings frontman Ollie Judge, taking on a tense and paranoid sound.

The lyrics of the song come partly inspired by the novel ‘Tender Is The Flesh’, which depicts a dystopian vision where cannibalism is the norm.“‘Crispy Skin’ was lyrically inspired by a dystopian novel I read where cannibalism becomes the societal norm and humans are manufactured and sold in supermarkets,” Judge explained of the inspiration.