On the back of the release of their critically acclaimed second album O Monolith, Squid announce that they will return to Belfast Ireland later this year for a show at the Mandela Hall on 24 October.

Tickets go on sale Friday 23 June at 9am from mandelahall.com

Squid’s latest album O Monolith was released on Friday 9th June and has garnered worldwide praise, with NME commenting “If Squid can make daring, experimental music sound as fun as this, then they will take some stopping” in their 9/10 review and

The Times urging readers to give the band their attention, writing their latest album is “ fascinating, rewarding of persistence and totally worth losing yourself in.” Teeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squid’s second album O Monolithis a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self-made folklore. Like its predecessor, 2021’s critically acclaimed, UK number 4 album Bright Green Field, it is dense and tricksy – but also more warm and characterful, with a meandering, questioning nature.

Expansive, evocative and hugely varied, O Monolith retains Squid’s restless, enigmatic

spirit, but it still holds surprises for those familiar with Bright Green Field. It’s a reflection of the outsized progression of a band always looking to the future. “Every record we do is a snapshot of where we’re at,” drummer Ollie Judge says. “We’re quite a musically stubborn band, and in an endearing way it’s a stubborn record. It requires quite a lot of attentive listening.” Like its namesake, O Monolith is vast and strange; alive with endless possible interpretations of its inner mysteries.

Praise for Squid’s latest album:

‘This is complex music — there are no catchy melodies to hook on to or big choruses to

sing along to — but it’s fascinating, rewarding of persistence and totally worth losing

yourself in’

- The Times (4★)

‘Fascinatingly, Squid are still somewhere off the map’

- Pitchfork

‘If Squid can make daring, experimental music sound as fun as this, then they will take

some stopping’

- NME (9★)

‘Everything here has been given room to expand, songs drifting from dreamy ascension

to full-blown rock revelation and back again. An album of immense power and

conviction’

- DIY (4.5★)

‘Squid are the house band for our post-normative existence’

- The Line Of Best Fit (9★)

‘Inconceivably, Squid have reset the benchmark of their boundless creativity on towering

new record, O Monolith, a sprawling endeavor that sees them scale new sonic breadth,

experimenting, mutating and extending their many limbs in new directions.’

- Loud and Quiet (8★)

‘O Monolith channels the shapeshifting patterns of Steve Reich and late-period

Radiohead to fashion a kind of lush English pastoral that seethes and shimmers at every

turn.’

- Uncut (8★)