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Nobody’s asking for sympathy here, but a quick pan of some of the other pieces about Bright Green Field reveal a common problem.
At one level it’s quite easy to describe, lending itself comfortably to the sort of dense, metaphor-heavy appraisals which feel a bit like critical onanism, but what’s equally true is that you have to be an accomplice, a significant other, at its table, because without that there’s simply no way to embrace it in a meaningful way.
Nearly always experimental and in places chaotic, Squid have made a record with which it’s impossible to have a casual relationship.
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The word âislandâ is usually synonymous with âparadiseââsomeplace tropical and warm, skewered by beach umbrellas. Weâre less likely to think of Alcatraz. But when English rock band Squid mention a âconcrete islandâ in the first minutes of
Bright Green Field, itâs closer to the infamous prison than a Sandals resort. The isle in âG.S.K.â is a dystopian slab ruled by Big Pharma, and the recordâs opening scene, as shouted by drummer and vocalist Ollie Judge, confines us to this grim locale: âAs the sun sets, on the Glaxo Klein/Well itâs the only way that I can tell the time,â he sings. On this barren rock, the British drug conglomerate is the towering center of daily lifeâso big, it acts like a sundial. âIslandâ never sounded so angry or claustrophobic.
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The British band Squid keeps testing its limits and the limits of those who would try to define it. Since 2017, the group has released a string of new songs, each a bit weirder than the last, up through last month’s “Pamphlets,” another in a growing constellation of oddities. The band is composed of five musicians, each of whom has multiple roles: the singer and drummer Ollie Judge, the guitarist and vocalist Louis Borlase, the guitarist and vocalist Anton Pearson, the bassist and brass player Laurie Nankivell, and the keyboardist, cellist, and percussionist Arthur Leadbetter. The project originated with Judge, Pearson, and Nankivell playing together in a soul-and-funk covers band. They also shared an appreciation of the German Krautrock band Neu! From these disparate influences, Squid has built something protean and compelling.
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