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10.0
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10.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
There'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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10.0
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10.0 |
Gigwise
Nothing short of immaculate
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10.0
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10.0 |
NME
An uncompromising debut that fulfils every ounce of the band’s potential
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9.0
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9.0 |
Under The Radar
In a crowded field of contemporaries, Bright Green Field puts Squid among the best
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9.0
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9.0 |
Exclaim
They 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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9.0
124809
9.0 |
DIY
Squid always seemed destined to have an epic album in them, and they’ve delivered just that
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9.0
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9.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Squid have mutated their trailblazing compound of fast, motoric beats meets spiralling jazz-induced art-punk and repurposed them for wider territories that stay true to Warp’s historic constitution for post-genre music
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9.0
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9.0 |
Clash
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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9.0
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9.0 |
Uncut
A bold debut that continues their frenetic explorations of post-punk kraut-jazz but also moves into more electronic and soundscape-like worlds. Print edition only
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9.0
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9.0 |
All Music
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
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9.0
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9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Bright Green Field is already an album rife with the qualities of a classic
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8.5
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8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Like (almost) nothing you’ll hear this year, Bright Green Field is a remarkable and unabashedly strange debut for Squid, one that is as perplexing as it is addicting. The only thing more addicting is trying to describe them to your friends
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8.5
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8.5 |
The Quietus
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
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8.3
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8.3 |
Beats Per Minute
A joy to return to time and again; the innovative sonic mayhem of their music is both an acknowledgement of the despair of our existence – and a reminder that nobody is alone in feeling it
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8.0
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8.0 |
Paste Magazine
The British quintet’s utter disregard for rock convention elevates Bright Green Field’s paranoid, vaguely dystopian universe
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8.0
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The FT
The band’s debut album sees literary inspiration transformed into a dynamic post-punk sound
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8.0
124819
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Bright Green Field ramps up that nagging longing for live music that we’ve all felt over the last year
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Music
It offers up seemingly endless musical revelations
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Independent
Squid continue to break boundaries on their debut album
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8.0
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8.0 |
Northern Transmissions
A rich melting pot of disparate influences; it’s where discordant post-punk aligns with jazzy rhythms, math-rock tendencies and pockets of ambient calm that spasmodically erupt into feral cavalcades of noise
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8.0
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8.0 |
Mojo
An absolute tonic. Print edition only
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8.0
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Slant Magazine
For all its significations and referents, the album never feels overburdened or contrived
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8.0
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8.0 |
Pitchfork
The English band’s nervy debut blazes through scraps of jazz, funk, krautrock, dub, and punk. More than a canonized style, it’s their level of control that sets them apart
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6.0
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The Observer
Boldly flaunting their influences, the Brighton five-piece hurtle along with huge shifts in style and pace
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Skinny
If Squid are the guitar boys' buzz band of the moment, some are going to get a little more than they bargained for on their debut
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