“a dazzling debut of wild experimentation”
“Embodying our ever-changing world, Squid's Bright Green Field is a perfect blend of calm and chaos”
“What with all the pastoral splendour that you’d be forgiven for associating with a title like Bright Green Field, a towering monolith of pharmaceutical power shouldn’t be the first image that springs to mind upon pressing play. But the widely-anticipated debut album from Squid was never going to be an easy one to predict. Whilst the gleaming panelled structure of the GlaxoSmithKline headquarters w”
“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.”
“The British quintet’s utter disregard for rock convention elevates Bright Green Field’s paranoid, vaguely dystopian universe”
“Some of its ideas do get a little stale, but all in all Bright Green Field is an ambitious and very promising debut album.”
