B-Side Guys

For a band that just charted at #199 on college radio, Two-Man Giant Squid seems suspiciously preoccupied with unreleased material. Their latest single “Weird Recordings (you’ve got some)” transforms artistic hesitation into a post-punk earworm, turning the eternal question of when to release music into a mantra of creative anxiety.

The production mirrors the psychological spiral of perfectionism, with the phrase “Just put it out” repeated exactly 32 times before breaking down into a dialogue between conflicting inner voices. “It’s been 4 months (it’s been 5 months)/It’s been a day (it’s been a year)” captures the time-warping nature of creative blocks with uncomfortable precision.

What’s particularly clever is how the Brooklyn duo uses their rising profile—from Mercury Lounge to Baby’s All Right to New Colossus Festival—as backdrop for a song about reluctance to share art. When they declare “I worked for months and said its not enough,” it hits harder knowing they’re singing it from stages that prove the opposite.

The track’s structure brilliantly sabotages itself, with the repeated insistence of “Just put it out” eventually colliding with “I’m not ready” in a deadlock that any artist will recognize. It’s a perfect distillation of the creative process: a song about not releasing songs that somehow made it out of the vault, proof that sometimes the only way past paralysis is through it.