Squid have shared a new single called “Fugue (Bin Song),” an outtake from the sessions of their recent sophomore album O Monolith.
After implementing it into their live performances over the past few years, Squid recorded “Fugue (Bin Song)” in spring 2022 as they were making O Monolith alongside their longtime collaborator Dan Carey at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studio. After its initial iteration didn’t make the cut on the record, Tortoise’s John McEntire re-mixed and edited the tune in late 2023, resulting in the version we hear today.
At nearly five and a half minutes, “Fugue” is a wandering jam that draws from elements of dance punk, post rock, and noise pop. You can hear a bit of McEntire’s influence as the song culminates into a furious coda, almost like “TNT” with a lot more shredding. Stream it below.
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After implementing it into their live performances over the past few years, Squid recorded “Fugue (Bin Song)” in spring 2022 as they were making O Monolith alongside their longtime collaborator Dan Carey at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studio. After its initial iteration didn’t make the cut on the record, Tortoise’s John McEntire re-mixed and edited the tune in late 2023, resulting in the version we hear today.
At nearly five and a half minutes, “Fugue” is a wandering jam that draws from elements of dance punk, post rock, and noise pop. You can hear a bit of McEntire’s influence as the song culminates into a furious coda, almost like “TNT” with a lot more shredding. Stream it below.
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- 1/24/2024
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Origins is a recurring series that gives artists a space to break down everything that went into their latest release. Today, British post-punkers Squid take us through their latest single, “The Blades.”
Squid have returned with the latest single from the upcoming O Monolith, “The Blades.” The post-rock-inspired, experimental post-punk track comes complete with a video directed by Kasper Häggström and starring Charlotte Ritchie.
The tune evokes the high-strung, tense art rock of Hail to the Thief-era Radiohead, fusing classic art-punk instrumentals with sprawling electronics and blistering horns. It builds itself up only to crumble before offering any sense of catharsis, and all the while, vocalist Ollie Judge offers perhaps his most dynamic performance yet.
“The song is written from the perspective of a police helicopter pilot called out to a protest and going a bit mad with power,” Judge explains. “The song ends with him in bed being tormented...
Squid have returned with the latest single from the upcoming O Monolith, “The Blades.” The post-rock-inspired, experimental post-punk track comes complete with a video directed by Kasper Häggström and starring Charlotte Ritchie.
The tune evokes the high-strung, tense art rock of Hail to the Thief-era Radiohead, fusing classic art-punk instrumentals with sprawling electronics and blistering horns. It builds itself up only to crumble before offering any sense of catharsis, and all the while, vocalist Ollie Judge offers perhaps his most dynamic performance yet.
“The song is written from the perspective of a police helicopter pilot called out to a protest and going a bit mad with power,” Judge explains. “The song ends with him in bed being tormented...
- 5/25/2023
- by Jonah Krueger
- Consequence - Music
When asked why he wanted to record new versions of songs his band June of 44 first released more than two decades ago — on their final proper studio LP, 1999’s Anahata — guitarist-vocalist Jeff Mueller gives a simple answer: He’d never really felt like they were finished in the first place.
“The session for Anahata was pretty tough; many of the songs felt underdeveloped,” Mueller writes in an email. “Speaking for myself … it all just felt rushed and messy — I had very little grasp on how to organize and play my parts.
“The session for Anahata was pretty tough; many of the songs felt underdeveloped,” Mueller writes in an email. “Speaking for myself … it all just felt rushed and messy — I had very little grasp on how to organize and play my parts.
- 7/9/2020
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
SXSW is barely 24 hours away from starting (catch up with part one and part two of our preview pieces here), and at this point, it's important to be reminded that one of the things that makes the festival unique is a particular focus on the crossover between music and film, something that's been a special interest of ours since the very earliest days of The Playlist. SXSW doesn't just have a whole sidebar dedicated to music documentaries (with this year's batch including films centered on LCD Soundsystem, Paul Simon and Big Star), and a music festival that runs alongside, but the films screened seem to attract a disproportionate number of scores by indie and rock musicians.
And with more and more names who broke out from the pop and rock world -- from veteran composers like Danny Elfman and Clint Mansell to newbies like Trent Reznor and The Chemical Brothers -- moving into composition,...
And with more and more names who broke out from the pop and rock world -- from veteran composers like Danny Elfman and Clint Mansell to newbies like Trent Reznor and The Chemical Brothers -- moving into composition,...
- 3/8/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Young Man, aka Colin Caulfield, began to grow an audience for himself from a series of YouTube videos he did performing various covers of Ariel Pink, Bon Iver and Beach House. Eventually, his cover of Deerhunter's "Rainwater Cassette Exchange" grabbed some real attention after it caught the eye of Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox, who hailed it as "fantastically superior to the original."
Young Man's debut full-length "Ideas of Distance," is out now on French Kiss, and we have an alternate take Caulfield recorded of the track, "Then & Now," produced by Tortoise's John McEntire:
Download: Young Man's "Then & Now," alternate take.
Also check out Young Man performing "Then & Now" as well as the rousing "Nothing" live at Chicago's Jira studios:
Young Man hit the road yesterday on tour with the Cold War Kids!
October 27 -- Salt Lake City, Ut, The Depot
October 28 -- Boulder, Co, Fox Theatre
October 29 -- Boulder,...
Young Man's debut full-length "Ideas of Distance," is out now on French Kiss, and we have an alternate take Caulfield recorded of the track, "Then & Now," produced by Tortoise's John McEntire:
Download: Young Man's "Then & Now," alternate take.
Also check out Young Man performing "Then & Now" as well as the rousing "Nothing" live at Chicago's Jira studios:
Young Man hit the road yesterday on tour with the Cold War Kids!
October 27 -- Salt Lake City, Ut, The Depot
October 28 -- Boulder, Co, Fox Theatre
October 29 -- Boulder,...
- 10/28/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
If the last Sea And Cake album was "Car Alarm" (2008), consider frontman Sam Prekop's forthcoming album to be the commute. "Old Punch Card" is the songwriter's first solo set in five years, and follows a pretty hypnotic formula: the entire album consists of songs performed on modular synthesizers, with one exception when a guitar was added. The result, if it can be estimated from the first "single," "Silhouette" below, is elemental, a driving high energy and definitely, definitely an odd experiment. Produced by Sea And Cake/Tortoise drummer and engineer John McEntire, "Old Punch Card" is out Sept. 7 on Thrill...
- 8/9/2010
- Hitfix
April showers bring May flowers - and new albums from four of indie rock's heavyweights. On The Download has your essential rock rundown.
The Band: Broken Social Scene
The Album: "Forgiveness Rock Record" (Arts & Crafts, out now)
The Details: After a trio of albums with longtime producer Dave Newfield, the Toronto collective headed to Chicago for the more subtle sonic guidance of John McEntire (The Sea and Cake, Tortoise). The result is a strong collection sparkling with studio polish, led by the Kevin Drew-sung throaty guitar anthems "World Sick" and "Forced To Love," and showcasing lovely ...
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The Band: Broken Social Scene
The Album: "Forgiveness Rock Record" (Arts & Crafts, out now)
The Details: After a trio of albums with longtime producer Dave Newfield, the Toronto collective headed to Chicago for the more subtle sonic guidance of John McEntire (The Sea and Cake, Tortoise). The result is a strong collection sparkling with studio polish, led by the Kevin Drew-sung throaty guitar anthems "World Sick" and "Forced To Love," and showcasing lovely ...
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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
- 5/6/2010
- by AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff
- Access Hollywood
There’s a bigness to Broken Social Scene that often works against the band’s attempts at off-the-cuff indie-rock, even as it helps set it apart. The ad hoc Toronto group’s fourth album Forgiveness Rock Record features a smaller core of musicians than usual, and has producer John McEntire enforcing some discipline, but Bss still embraces sprawl and volume, because that’s who these guys are. If hooky songs like “Texico Bitches,” “Forced To Love,” and “Ungrateful Little Father” didn’t load up on casual vulgarity and excess instrumentation, they’d be indistinguishable from all the other catchy indie-rock ...
- 5/4/2010
- avclub.com
Reclusive director of 'Breakfast Club,' 'Sixteen Candles' gave rare interview.
By Gil Kaufman
John Hughes
Photo: MTV (File)
When I read that director/screen writer John Hughes died on Thursday, I thought of a lot of things: his seminal 1980s movies "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; how those movies taught me about love and not worrying about fitting in; and how he didn't worry about fitting in on the Hollywood scene and basically retreated from the public eye and the persona he never wanted to live up to.
But mostly I thought about the time in 1997 when I somehow managed to get the rarely interviewed, publicity-shy director on the phone to talk about a little-known indie movie he wrote called "Reach the Rock."
The ostensible reason I finagled the talk was because I was a fan of a label run by his son,...
By Gil Kaufman
John Hughes
Photo: MTV (File)
When I read that director/screen writer John Hughes died on Thursday, I thought of a lot of things: his seminal 1980s movies "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; how those movies taught me about love and not worrying about fitting in; and how he didn't worry about fitting in on the Hollywood scene and basically retreated from the public eye and the persona he never wanted to live up to.
But mostly I thought about the time in 1997 when I somehow managed to get the rarely interviewed, publicity-shy director on the phone to talk about a little-known indie movie he wrote called "Reach the Rock."
The ostensible reason I finagled the talk was because I was a fan of a label run by his son,...
- 8/7/2009
- MTV Movie News
When Tortoise’s It’s All Around You arrived in 2004, some critics suggested that the band was at a creative impasse: John McEntire and his virtuosic post-rock warrior brethren had honed their songs to the point of becoming background music, that great graveyard of well-intentioned instrumentals. Around was clean and tight, whereas young bucks like Battles were starting to experiment with a mathier, full-tilt version of the Tortoise sound. Well, if Beacons Of Ancestorship isn’t counterfire, then nothing is. The album can be roughly split down the middle, with an emphasis on rhythm up front. The opener, “High ...
- 6/23/2009
- avclub.com
It's approaching a good four years since we've heard new material from our favorite Canadian collective, Broken Social Scene. Word on the web is the band has holed up in Chicago to record the follow-up to 2005's Broken Social Scene with producer John McEntire. And we couldn't agree more with those newshounds at Pitchfork who tipped us off: About damn time, indeed.
- 5/21/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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