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- Summary: The debut full-length release for the British post-punk band was produced by Dan Carey and features a guest appearance from Martha Skye Murphy.
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- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 19
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Mixed: 2 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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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 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 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 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 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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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 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.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 12
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Mixed: 1 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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May 31, 2021
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