album cover: Cowards

Cowards

Squid

  • "Cowards" - Squid | levillagepop.com
    • [english] Let's step out of our comfort zone this time with the third album from English band Squid, “Cowards” (Warp Records, Boogie Drugstore). We're not far from...
  • Squid: Cowards | Pitchfork
    • Read Aimee Cliff’s review of the album.
  • Culture Pick | Art-rock band Squid achieves unique depth in new album ‘Cowards’ | The Crimson White
    • Following a discography of experimental rock featuring a plethora of unique instrumentality, the art-rock band Squid does not disappoint with the release of its third album, “Cowards,” which cane on Friday. Formed in 2016 in Brighton, England, Squid has been releasing innovative pieces of music since the debut of its EP, “LINO,” in 2017. Upon...
  • Squid, Cowards Review | Staccatofy
    • Since bursting onto the scene with Bright Green Field, Squid have consistently redefined the contours of British post-punk. With O Monolith, the band honed
  • Squid : Cowards | Album review | Treble | Feb. 11, 2025, 4:05 a.m.
    • Populating their stunning songs with villains on third album 'Cowards,' Squid imagine a twisted and beautiful reality
  • Cowards- Squid | The Mic | Feb. 10, 2025, 12:46 p.m.
    • Squid continue their evolution with third album Cowards. Equally rich in levels of grandeur and evil, the nine distinct tales within this release unfurl a vantablack comedy. Luke Bower digs deeper below.Squid have remained an enigmatic muscle amidst the contorting body of experimental art rock in the 21st Century. Their output as a band has retained an inexplicable stamina since their first releases under prestigious South London label Speedy Wunderground, which has nurtured the likes of black m
  • Album: Squid - Cowards | theartsdesk.com | Feb. 8, 2025, midnight
    • Brighton band Squid are not in the business of straightforward. Combining jazz chops with a sensibility that’s at once post-punk, prog and avant-garde, their music is wilfully tricksy. Yet it does groove, upon occasion, it does funk. Tunes do pop in for a visit.
  • Squid announce third album 'Cowards' and share lead single 'Crispy Skin ... | DIY
    • Squid have returned with the news that their third album, ‘Cowards’, will be released on 7th February 2025 via Warp Records. The LP will act as a follow up to their 2021 debut ‘Bright Green Field’ and last year’s sophomore effort ‘O Monolith’ , and is set to consist of nine narrative-driven tracks, each of which feature characters ...
  • Squid, 'Cowards' Album Review - Paste Magazine | Paste | Feb. 6, 2025, midnight
    • Squid Tackle a Universal Evil on Cowards Cowards is the ideal album that a band in Squid’s position would put out: one that builds on the ideas that defined in their first two albums, but doesn ...
  • Squid - Cowards | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews | Clash Magazine | Feb. 5, 2025, 11:03 a.m.
    • On their third record, ‘Cowards’, Squid deliver straight, lean, ... Most of the album is sweet and woozy baroque pop, like the piano-led twilight ballad ‘Blood on the Boulders’ or the duology of minimalistic lullabies, ‘Fieldworks I’ and ‘Fieldworks II’. Yet, after the record’s midpoint, it becomes especially clear that they ...
  • Squid - Cowards review • DIY Magazine | DIY | Feb. 5, 2025, midnight
    • Swashbuckling violins, harpsichords and timpanis, and narratives of Tokyo, New York, or Eastern Europe show us that, yes, Squid have travelled the world, but they have also returned home with a sense of self that’s stronger than ever, as sharp as a razor dripping with freshly drawn blood.
  • Squid Pens Nuanced Stories While Stretching The Limits Of Their Post ... | Glide Magazine | Feb. 4, 2025, midnight
    • The answer, for Squid, is Cowards. The band’s third album arrives via Warp Records this Friday (February 7). The 9-song LP features blissful post-punk with tinges of soul, showcasing a more honed, mature side of Squid. Cowards was completed when the band released their 2023 LP, O Monolith, just before they started touring the record. Many ...
  • Squid Bravely Face a Burning World on 'Cowards' | Exclaim! | Feb. 4, 2025, midnight
    • Now, with the release of Cowards, their third album in four years, Squid have expanded their sonic palette yet again, delivering an eerie, apocalyptic record that's their most powerful and...
  • Squid 'Cowards' Album Review | Stereogum | Feb. 4, 2025, midnight
    • Cowards marks Squid’s third album in just under four years and, like many of their contemporaries awkwardly lumped together under the “post-punk revival,” they continue to restlessly mutate ...