Description
2021, 2×12″ LP, Warp Records. Glow in the dark vinyl with alternate cover.
It’s Squid but maybe not as you knew them in short form. While musically not a million miles from the earliest samples we had from the band, Bright Green Field is a different place that we find them in. An “imaginary cityscape”, as the outfit have apparently put it, which is home to a multitude of things – people, events, movements, memories. So whereas before, things took a pretty intimate, even domesticated lyrical slant, here the scope is much greater. Track titles like ‘G.S.K.’ should be enough to prove the point (a not-so-subtle nod to Big Pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline). Elsewhere, themes range from aggressive propaganda of right wing politics to physical space itself. An outfit realizing what can be done with the reach of their voice while remaining true to the punk, art rock, jazz fusion you were hoping for from this confident Bristolian debut. – Juno
