#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

@thesearenotphotographs

[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

[senorboombastic]

Live Review: Squid at O2 Ritz in Manchester 18 February 2025

Words: Andy Hughes Hoofing it to the tram on the way out of the Squid gig this week just gone, I overheard some punters with a particularly critical approach to the evening. “It’s hard to have stage presence when you’re sat down…” Said one of the evening, next claiming that the other members of the band weren’t doing anything. Ouch! Was it really that bad? Reader: it was not. It’s been a treat…

[xartwrk]

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

[cataldodarker]

Squid

Bright Green Field

Data di rilascio: 07-05-2021

O Monolith

Data di rilascio: 09-06-2023

Cowards

Data di rilascio: 07-02-2025

[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.

[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)

[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…

[a1exkra1ie]

nothing worse than when you like a band's debut album and keep up with their new releases and theyre not as good as the debut

[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

[catis15]

My Opinions/Reviews on Saphic Books:

- Bright Falls Trilogy

- All of them are cute and heartwarming and giggle worthy and shit

- It's cool seeing each of the friend groups POVs and they're all pretty relatable in my opinion

- Pretty good representation of various family relationships especially with mothers

- the various relationships are actually really well written but the stories are still very much focused on the romance, they're not sidelined persey but they're not the main focus of that's what your looking for it's very much about the couple

- I like the variety in body types through the series, there's different heights, weights, yada yada and it's nice to see and they're all appreciated

- There aren't any POC MCs but there are side characters, also lots of gender and lgbtqia+ identity representation NB characters, ace characters, lots of queer couples, I think there may be a polycule mentioned but I'm not entirely sure

- Smut? Yes there is, how much varies between book but I'd argue there's more every book with Iris's book having the most; Id also argue it gets intenser as the series continues but it's all pretty mid (not in the it's bad writing way in the I've read far worse but I've also read some relatively pg 13)

DELILAH GREEN

- I love Delilah sm she can fucking step on me and Id ask her to do it again

- It's a sorta an asshole to everyone but you between her and Claire but not in the typical way? Like it's there but it's not written the way a lot of that trope usually is, idk I just really like how these books are written I think the author does a fantastic job

- Delilah seeing Claire for who she is and like just how much emotion she has is just yes, and also Claire seeing Delilah as like a sweet person and not just an asshole is nice too

- Because I know it bothers some people, Claire is a mother and the kid is talked about, I don't mind parent tropes but ik some people just don't enjoy reading them, I thought Ruby was sweet though and Claire seeing how Delilah interacts with her is also really cute

- Delilah also providing that safe and comforting space for artwork for Ruby is also really sweet and seeing Delilah kinda give Ruby what she herself didn't have is wholesome ASF and Claire just appreciates it and shit idk it's cute

- Hating On The Straight White Man TM (because he is gross to Astrid)

- Delilah is a photographer and Claire runs a bookstore

ASTRID PARKER

- It's cool getting to see Astrid's POV compared to how Delilah (her sister) views her

- Mommy Issues TM and in my opinion it catches some of the subtleties of growing up with a toxic parent really well

- Jordans ex comes along so warning for that, ok some people don't really like that

- Also handles like not missing your ex but feeling like YOU failed because the relationship failed

- again the subtleties of so much is just so well written

- Jordan is very stereotypical lesbian and I'm here for it

- her truck is named adora, her cat is named catra (if I'm remembering correctly), she wears random button ups, got that half saved short hair going (funnily enough I myself had both Astrid and Jordans haircuts at various points in my life lmao), she's a carpenter sorta, she's got an attitude, is into taro, like I love her sm 😂 she's so me fr 😭

- enemies to lovers

- Astrid's a bitch and Jordan pretends not to be into it

- they fuck in a pantry

- it's funny

IRIS KELLY

- iris doesn't do kids and marriages and her more or less traditional family is giving her shit for it

- Stevie has anxiety and handles it the same way I handle mine so that was relatable

- handles the shit that goes along with having anxiety really well so props to the author once again

- fake dating tm

- They're basically giving each other 'classes' because they think they're bad at things; but in reality it's just them being comfortable with stuff they're actually pretty good at; Stevie helps Iris be more comfortable with everyday romance and Iris helps Stevie be more comfortable with adult fun time intimacy outside of committed long term relationships

- but at the same time in queer Shakespeare and it's beautiful

- Home Field Advantage

- will add later

- The Song of the Huntress

- Just bought it and haven't read it yet

- The Priory of the Orange Tree

- Just bought it haven't read it

- Late Bloomer

- a few chapters in

- th author notes are funny and enjoyable

- good representation of things like people pleasing, autism, trust issues due to family trauma, bad relationships that you stay in for the comfort, toxic friends

- They're some pretty heavy themes but their handled in an easy to swallow way

- while these are very present themes the main focus is still the romance, but they're handled a bit more in depth than say the Bright Falls Trilogy