O Monolith LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_07567862476 Asking for a Ride finds

Asking for a Ride finds the Louisville band taking a more direct and in-your-face approach

These are not typical love songs or protest songs — they are painful

"When you're in a band for so long and somebody else is that person

and multi-instrumentalist Eric Johnson

O Monolith LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_07567862476 Asking for a Ride findsTeeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squid's second album O Monolith is 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. A sense of open conversation is cultivated: this is unmistakably music made by friends, but it's not