Cowards
by Squid
- Type: Album
- Released: 7 February 2025
- Label: Warp
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 44:59
- Community rating: 3.74/5 from 46 ratings
Artists on this release: Ollie Judge, Anton Pearson, Laurie Nankivell, Louis Borlase, Arthur Leadbetter
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'Cowards', Squid expands its sound into art-rock and post-rock, exploring the concept of evil through a series of dark, literary-inspired narratives. Marta Salogni's production balances the band's core instrumentation with baroque elements like string quartets and harpsichord, weaving together textures from electronica, folk, and psych-rock to create a sonically detailed and ambitious work.
Genres
Descriptors: talk-singing, spoken-word, tense, rhythmic, experimental, abrasive, dissonant, avant-garde
Tracklist
- Crispy Skin (06:19)
- Building 650 (03:51)
- Blood on the Boulders (05:46)
- Fieldworks I (02:23)
- Fieldworks II (03:19)
- Cro-Magnon Man (04:07)
- Cowards (05:51)
- Showtime! (05:08)
- Well Met (Fingers Through The Fence) (08:15)
Credits
- Louis Borlase - guitar, bass guitar, vocals
- Ollie Judge - drums, lead vocals
- Arthur Leadbetter - keyboards
- Laurie Nankivell - bass guitar, brass, percussion
- Anton Pearson - guitar, bass, vocals, percussion
- Alessandro Ruisi - violin
- Venetia Jollands - violin
- Luba Tunnicliffe - viola
- Max Ruisi - cello
- Zands Duggan - additional percussion (tracks 1–3, 5–9)
- Rosa Brook - additional voices (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9)
- Tony Njoku - additional voices (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9)
- Clarissa Connelly - additional voices (track 9)
- Chris Dowding - flugelhorn (tracks 7, 9)
- Marta Salogni - production, recording, additional engineering
- Grace Banks - engineering, additional production
- Dan Carey - additional production
- Heba Kadry - mastering
- John McEntire - mixing
- Chiara Ferracuti - additional engineering
- Ben Sifel - design
- Tonje Tielsen - photography