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Each individual in the 9 tracks on Squid’s 3rd album ‘Cowards’ is its individual story. The English artwork-rockers have crafted protagonists who reckon with the line concerning proper and Completely wrong, contending with charisma and apathy alike.“Ohio On a regular basis” is often a bittersweet but damn-near-great guitar vignette about

“Cats” is undoubtedly an eerie ode to wanting to tame your animal impulses, although the indie-sleaze synth friction of “Hooked” is enough to induce vodka-breath flashbacks of sloppy strangers making out within the coat-check line. —There’s a way of transcendence operating through the LP, with most tunes resolving in A significant vital