#bright green field

[innovacancy]

Squid Paradise Rock Club 14 February 2024 Full coverage and gallery here

[thebowerypresents]

Squid Thrill Brooklyn Steel with Newest Album

Squid – Brooklyn Steel – February 10, 2024

I could be off the mark here, but in recent years, there seems to be a much bigger appetite for weird stuff in music. The pop stars are weaving in longer, riskier samples. Harpists are playing sold-out live shows. The drum-and-bass DJs are making ambient albums. Experimentation is back, baby, and thankfully that meant a busy night for the exceptional Squid, the five-piece post-punk outfit from South London, who played Brooklyn Steel on Saturday night.  

They are touring behind their second album, last year’s O Monolith, another boundary-pusher that follows their first LP, Bright Green Field, from 2021. Notably, both releases came out on Warp, a label that leans mostly electronic and has put out records by artists like Aphex Twin, Kelala and Mount Kimbie, among other innovators. The marriage may seem to be a strange one, but any close listener will get it, especially live.

Take “The Blades,” which begins with a spare, quick-cutting loop. Guitar layers in, but so do the stranger bleeping, synth-y moments expected of Warp. At first listen it emulates the übercatharsis of “Pamphlets” (Bright Green Field) — a quiet bridge, a strong closing build — but it fine-tunes, mellows and sophisticates it into something even grander. That the two were back-to-back closers — a kicker that quite frankly worked beautifully — was a perfect distillation of the band’s evolution.  

They played new (“Undergrowth”) and old (“Narrator”), but the show calibrated the two well, working in genres that ranged from psychedelic to metal. Navigating that ship through such changing waters is Ollie Judge, lead singer and drummer. He makes you wonder why drummers haven’t always been the default leads. His vocals go quiet, large, then pained, then ecstatic. He stands, drums and saunters, the energetic and emotive core of Squid’s ethos. 

The band’s latest has them extending past simply playing and into composition, and to witness them move further into their own was fantastic. A deeply unique band with a seemingly endless well of invention. Squid forever. —Rachel Brody | @RachelCBrody

Photos courtesy of Edwina Hay | thisisnotaphotograph.com

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[iamlisteningto]

Squid’s Bright Green Field

[zevfern]

I'm speeding along, speeding along

I go through the windshield

#24 on ur spotify wrapped describes how 2024 will go, how screwed r u

[xartwrk]

Bright Green Field by Squid Cover by Felix Geen (x)

[cataldodarker]

Squid

Bright Green Field

Data di rilascio: 07-05-2021

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O Monolith

Data di rilascio: 09-06-2023

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[ok-albumreview]

Bright Green Field by Squid (9.5/10)

BEST SONG: "Global Groove" WORST SONG: "'Narrator"

One of the weirder yet most aesthetically pleasing albums I've heard. This whole album sounds like a Talking Heads album but super skitter'y, noisy, and bouncy. Ollie Judge's voice can be just a little much at times-- most of this album's lyrics are sang / screamed in a weird rhythm-- but this is still a great yet refreshing album to listen through once in a while.

[senorboombastic]

Live Review: Squid at New Century Hall in Manchester 18 October 2023

Words: Andy Hughes Ahead of a sold out live outing from southern lot Squid at Manchester’s New Century Hall this week, we took a social media nostalgia trip through our history with the band, having documented their endeavours from a back room in Liverpool to headlining the Grade II listed Albert Hall in Manchester in the space of a few years. The following night they’d be squeezing into sister…

[musubiki]

balor + ponytail (feat my farmer isa)

[art--hee]

My fav boy racers gotta be bob-sleigh racers

[oscar-out-of-a-suitcase]

Hemba, Ukraine

[pellinni-photo]

red poppy field. beautiful countryside landscape at sunset beneath a blue sky in summer. sun behind the flowers. wonderful outdoor nature background

[tofreezetime]

I'm making me

[barksbog]

found a white corn flower!!

[ar0ace-m3ss]

Because I'm trans and gay, I have this weird thing where I don't know if I'm attracted to someone or want to be them. I had this a lot when I was younger , as what I thought were crushes are actually gender envy.

I remember being obsessed with male fictional characters, and I wanted to dress and be like them. So I made a venn diagram... these are ppl of the top of my head and probably not all.

(Probably spelling mistakes I made this in about a minute)

[catilinas]

also on the topic of notebooks. of the two head librarians at work. one has a massive annual spiral notebook / calendar situation that she gets professionally bound at the end of every year. and the other has what was once a thin cardboard hardback notebook that lost its spine and got duct taped back together and is now like five times as thick as its previously theoretical limit because he just keeps taping new identical notebooks onto the back of it