SQUID - COWARDS CLEAR VINYL

Cowards was recorded after the completion but before the release of the band's second album, O Monolith, with recording finishing on June 9, 2023. It was inspired by traveling to different countries and reading books about the countries to create what lead singer and drummer Ollie Judge described as a "book of dark fairy tales."[2] Some of these books included Agustina Bazterrica's Tender is the Flesh and Ryu Murakami's In the Miso Soup.

The lyrics touch on a variety of topics within the overall topic of "evil itself," with "Crispy Skin" being about cannibalism and "Blood on the Boulders" about the Manson murders. RELEASED 2/2025