Bright Green Field
Squid
Awards:
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AllMusic, Editor's Choice, May 2021
Truly 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.
Bright Green Field
Squid
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Awards:
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AllMusic, Editor's Choice, May 2021
Truly 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.
About
Bright Green Field, produced by Dan Carey, is an album of towering scope and ambition, it is deeply considered, paced and intricately constructed. With all band members playing such a vital and equal role, this album is very much the product of five heads operating as one. Some bands might be tempted to include previous singles on their debut but instead Bright Green Field is completely new. This sense of limitlessness and perpetual forward motion is one of the the key ingredients that makes Squid so loved by fans and critics alike, from BBC Radio 6 Music who have A-Listed previous singles, Houseplants, The Cleaner and Match Bet to publications such as, The Guardian, NME, The Face, The Quietus and countless others. The band was also on the longlist for the BBC Music Sound of 2020 poll. Bright Green Field features field recordings of ringing church bells, tooting bees, microphones swinging from the ceiling orbiting a room of guitar amps, a distorted choir of 30 voices as well as a horn and string ensemble featuring the likes of, Emma-Jean Thackray and Lewis Evans from Black Country, New Road.
Contents and tracklist
1. Resolution Square
2. G.S.K.
3. Narrator (feat. Martha Skye Murphy)
4. Boy Racers
5. Paddling
6. Documentary Filmmaker
7. 2010
8. The Flyover
9. Peel St.
10. Global Groove
11. Pamphlets
Awards and reviews
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AllMusicEditor's ChoiceMay 2021
Truly 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.
6th May 2021
What Bright Green Field shows us is that the UK music scene is going through what feels like a golden period and if you support and band, but also allow them to evolve at their own pace, you can get something as transfixing as Bright Green Field. With any luck, we’ll soon be able to hear these songs in their natural environment. Live. In a bright – and green – field.
