O Monolith (Vinyl LP) Rock N Roll & 50s

O Monolith (Vinyl LP) Rock N Roll & 50sTeeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squids second album O Monolith is a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self made folklore. Like its predecessor, 2021s critically acclaimed, UK number 4 album Bright Green Field, it is dense and tricksy but also more warm and characterful, with a meandering, questioning nature. Expansive, evocative and hugely varied, O Monolith retains Squids restless, enigmatic spirit, but it still

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by the 18th century English mystic and poet William Blake

a cover of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice

Dark and light

" If Rodeo showed that Travis Scott is comfortable coloring outside hip-hop's lines

The music is dramatic

Countering this are beautiful string arrangements made up of violin

boundary-pushing electronic producers

and in a size that's more suited to playing in the car on the way to a dance than a cumbersome old vinyl album would be

from the dramatic storytelling on \WND\"

The result is vulnerable