Squid - Cowards (Deluxe Edition)

Squid - Cowards (Deluxe Edition)Squids new album Cowards is about evil. Nine stories whose protagonists reckon with cults, charisma and apathy. Real and imagined characters wading into the dark ocean between right and wrong. Cowards is Squids most courageous album: simultaneously growing in scope and returning to basics. The band recorded Cowards at Church Studios in Crouch End with Mercury prize winning producers Marta Salogni and Grace Banks. On additional production is longtime

Madlib and Doom play to their nearly superhuman strengths

with effortless melodic guitar and string arrangements creating a heartrending backdrop that showcases Fran as another force to watch in the constantly evolving Chicago music scene

Indiana’s influences are fluid and their lyrics are left intentionally open to interpretation

This guy never did

Add to that a slew of classic remixes (D'Angelo)

wrote eloquently about the joys and pains — more than anything

We’ll avoid in-depth breakdowns of lyrical content here

The gently insinuating despair of Smith's work communicates volumes about the heartbreak and alienation that is the bane of 20th century boys with too much time on their hands

synth-driven songs

is as funky as it is brooding

The album imagines a fantastical—albeit plausible—near future

like “Maze of Roses