Cenotes

Giant Squid spent a week of June at Red Room recording studios in Seattle, WA, completing their highly anticipated next release entitled Cenotes. Though only five songs long, each lengthy track accumulates to 35 minutes of music, and is quintessential Giant Squid, taking the kinetic energy of their older, bludgeoning fan favorites like "Neonate" and "Throwing a Donner Party at Sea", and drenching it in all the exoticness of their 2009, critically acclaimed masterpiece, The Ichthyologist continuing the elaborate mythos of that album's protagonist. The middle eastern aesthetic that the band has embraced throughout its entire cannon consumes this new material to its core. Riff worship meets gypsy jangle and Arabesque male/female vocal harmonies, further enhancing the band's trademark, otherworldly, musical storytelling. Unarguably, Cenotes is the deepest, fastest, sludgiest, and most adventurous release from Giant Squid yet.