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May 5, 2021‘On Bright Green Field’, in all of its weird, frantic and fantastic glory, they’ve gone above and beyond.
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May 3, 2021There's no doubt that the five-piece have created something incredibly special, and they’re already working on a tour to showcase yet more new music for later in the year – nothing can keep them still. The world is truly Squid's oyster.
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May 11, 2021It may be early, but get ready to etch their name alongside some of the all-time greats. Bright Green Field is already an album rife with the qualities of a classic.
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May 7, 2021One of the finest debut albums this century. ... Bright Green Field is a brave and daring debut album that manages to mix experimental and avant-garde influences smack bang next to bouncy indie-disco post-punk motifs. I can’t get over how grand and great it is.
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May 7, 2021Truly a band for the times, Squid feels like a wild jumble of thoughts come to life, effusing anger, confusion, humor, detachment, and even joyfulness in their pursuit of true creative freedom.
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May 6, 2021A potent debut album. Succinct yet packed with stunning detail, it refuses to take the easy way out, and that stubbornness may see Squid outstrip their peers in a head-long race towards a re-engaged future.
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May 6, 2021Squid always seemed destined to have an epic album in them, and they’ve delivered just that.
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May 5, 2021Squid accomplishes an impressive feat of ambition with Bright Green Field, pushing past genre confines to craft something singular, thoughtful, and captivating.
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UncutMay 3, 2021A bold debut that continues their frenetic explorations of post-punk kraut-jazz but also moves into more electronic and soundscape-like worlds. [Jun 2021, p.33]
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May 3, 2021They embrace vulnerability, taking time to address modern issues (read: symptoms of capitalism), while also imbuing a real sense of fun, artistic merit and instrumental democracy in the record's 11 tracks.
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May 7, 2021Squid’s music is full of: humanity and the inherent hope within it. It’s what makes Bright Green Field a joy to return to time and again.
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Jun 24, 2021Squid’s transformation into post-punk disruptors is indicative of a band that relentlessly bucks against their limits. To hear them ply their craft on Bright Green Field, the album represents a crystallization of that impulse.
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May 14, 2021The band is very good, good enough to pull off this edge-of-your-seat flirtation with breakdown.
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May 11, 2021Even amid all these choices, Squid’s spinouts are orchestrated stunts, never heady jam-band accidents. More than a canonized style, it’s their level of control that sets them apart.
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May 7, 2021Bright Green Field is easily Squid’s most musically varied and ambitious work yet.
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May 6, 2021This is proudly shape-shifting, genre-defying music.
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MojoMay 3, 2021Producer Dan Carey brings cohesion to the multiplicity. ... An absolute tonic.[Jun 2021, p.86]
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May 10, 2021Bright Green Field has a hurtling energy, each song shifting restlessly, repeatedly in style and pace. It’s a shame, then, that the vocals of drummer and lyricist Ollie Judge so often pull it back to earth.
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May 3, 2021When Bright Green Field follows in the footsteps of their best track The Cleaner – supercharging the banal and mundane with vigour and purpose – it rips, mixing genres like straight-ahead indie-rock with funk and jazz, and exploring ambient and textural backdrops which make their now-home Warp apt.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 60 out of 65
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Mixed: 4 out of 65
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Negative: 1 out of 65
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May 8, 2021This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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