Squid - Crispy Skin (Official Video)

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18 Feb - O2 Ritz Manchester, Manchester, UK
19 Feb - Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, UK
21 Feb - NSU Domain, Newcastle, UK
22 Feb - Leadmill, Sheffield, UK
27 Feb - O2 Academy Oxford, Oxford, UK
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24 March - Junction 1, Cambridge, UK
25 March - The Adrian Flux Waterfront, Norwich, UK
9 April - Cabaret Sauvage, Paris, France
10 April - Club Volta, Cologne, Germany
11 April - Polimagie Festival, Dresden, Germany
12 April - Lido, Berlin, Germany
14 April - Manufaktur, Schorndorf, Germany
15 April - Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
16 April - Trix, Antwerp, Belgium
18 April - Motel Mozaique Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
19 April - Doornroosje, Nijmegen, Netherlands
26 April - Roundhouse, London, UK

Credits
Official Music Video dir. Takashi Ito | Crispy Skin adapts Takashi Ito's award-winning experimental short film Zone (1995)

"A film about a man without a face. His arms and legs bound with ropes, still without even a quiver in a white room. This man, enwrapped in wild delusions, is also a reconstruction of myself. A series of unusual scenes in this room that expresses what lies inside me. I tried to create a connection between memories, nightmares and violent images." - Takashi Ito

'Zone' under exclusive license to Warp Records, courtesy of Image Forum, 2024

Squid are Louis Borlase, Ollie Judge, Arthur Leadbetter, Laurie Nankivell, Anton Pearson
Strings by Ruisi Quartet
Additional Voices by Rosa Brook & Tony Njoku
Additional Percussion by Zands Duggan
Recorded by Marta Salogni & Grace Banks
With Additional Engineering by Grace Banks & Chiara Ferracuti
Additional Production by Dan Carey
Mixed by John McEntire
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC

Lyrics
We call it
Something else
To disguise
Our memory
Do you recall?
The carpet shops?
Those little books
That help you make decisions

Am I the bad one?
Yep, yes I am

I couldn’t eat
Another thing
No more pages and pages of crispy skin

Am I the bad one?
Yep, yes I am
Thought it could change me, well here I am
Am I the bad one?
Yep, yes I am
Thought it could change me, well here I am

All those words
That i read
Do nothing
How I think
Selfishly
Crispy skin
Hit them once
Not again

Wide eyed
My first day
Your first day
How we’ve changed
I don’t wince
While i read
Tucked in bed
Whats wrong with me?
We keep them underground
We keep them on our page
We love their crispy skin
‘Cos it’s something that we crave
We keep them round the back
And we keep them on our page
We love their crispy skin
‘Cos it’s something that we crave
One hit right between eyes
It’s become so easy that’s no surprise
One hit right between the eyes
It’s become so easy to take a life

Am I the bad one?
Yeah, yes i am
Thought it could change me
Well here I am
Well here I am
Well here I am

All those words
That I read
Do nothing
How i think

The blood drips drips faster than you can think
The blood drips drips faster than you can think

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