Colossal Squid

Baba Yaga's Hut presents:

Colossal Squid at Vespers, February 25th

Started in 2017, the solo project of drummer/producer Adam Betts (Squarepusher's Shobaleader One, Goldie, Pulp, David Gilmour, Three Trapped Tigers), Colossal Squid has been exploring what the meaning of live electronica is, offering an answer by disrupting the mechanical precision of electronica with warm heart and sweat-soaked chaos. Betts is renowned for ecstatic and face-melting breakcore and punk-infused jungle drumming, and Colossal Squid compositions lean into this expression to create a wild, shared euphoria. Especially while the world is burning, collective joyful abandon is ever more important, and Colossal Squid has created this in recent stunning sets at festivals such as End Of The Road, ArcTangent, Smugglers, Wanderfal, Wrong Speed weekender, Positive Futures and Strange Forms.

The forthcoming album Closing Memory is out Feb 2027 on Wrong Speed records.

Like listening to Dan Deacon producing Lightning Bolt. I Lost Detroit is a particularly strong halfway point, a bittersweet triumph building to a blustery climax that could bring an entire mountain down. Idiosyncratic and intense, it gets straight to the heart of Colossal Squids appeal: transcendence. - Bandcamp Daily