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

Coming of age during a time where the band’s blend of introspective shoegaze and gauze-laden guitar earned them tours with bands like the Radio Dept

The Talk Talk inspired pean to isolation “Way Out” features a moody saxophone

Steven Raekwon Reynolds performs as S

Rolling Stone

” With his acoustic guitar dropped to a deep

The song is a soaring triumph

a nod to drummer Shiraz Bhatti’s Pakistani heritage

Johnny Marr has created here a wide range of guitar styles that provide a musical bed for Morrissey's best set of lyrics

Sweden " heaven and hell

” Pitchfork has written

remains an entrancing introduction to her magical formula

this new one has an almost monolithic approach