Squid - Cro-Magnon Man

What this video is

Released February 2025 as the third and final pre-album single from Squid's Warp Records LP Cowards, 'Cro-Magnon Man' arrives at a moment of peak critical validation for the Brighton-formed quintet, widely recognised as among the most experimental voices in contemporary British guitar music. The track conceptually inhabits a dystopian parallel timeline where meaningless objects outlive humanity — a…

Why it matters

Represents the bleeding edge of 2020s UK post-punk's turn toward full art-rock conceptualism. Squid's fusion of kosmische, jazz, psychedelia, and electronics — realised on Warp Records — positions 'Cro-Magnon Man' as a document of the genre's expansion beyond its post-punk origins into genuinely…

The director

Scotland-born writer and director. Received the BAFTA New Talent Writer Award in 2013 for short film Liar. His no-budget improvised short Good Girl (2014) won The Skinny/Innis & Gunn Short Film Competition. Graduated from the National Film and Television…