Bright Green Field
by Squid (2020s)

From AvalancheGrips 05/07/2021 20:44 | #269475 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Ok, time for a real comment and not just reference to other existing bands.

This album, for me, lived fully up to the hype I gave it, which was a lot. Mostly because of how good Narrator was as a single. The Squid boys are masters of combining groovy, melodic sections with experimental walls of sound and ambient sections. The greatest example of this is "Boy Racers". The opening groove is tight and skillful, it builds with more and more layers, and has a final climax. Then, it turns into a massive, celestial ambient track.

There is also a general vibe I've been getting from these newer post-punk bands. It's this careless and melodic sound that I have noticed on "2010" by Squid, "Despair" by black midi, and the end of "Athens, France" by Black Country, New Road. They're all so pretty, which is kind of a divergence away from the typical post-punk sound. Squid capture this vibe a couple times on this album. I'm excited for what's to come from them in the future.

Pretty much every song is a banger so give this album a listen and have some fun.

From pjohnsongolf TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/09/2021 19:47 | #269533 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This is an album that has definitely lived up to the hype it’s received. When I think of modern post punk this is how it should sound.

From AvalancheGrips 05/07/2021 05:19 | #269447 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Squid- Black Country, New Road- and black midi next. This spring has some great releases. The future is bright for post-punk

From LebowskiRams TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/11/2021 21:16 | #269597 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

A brilliant record that is ambitious and thoughtful. It's abstract enough to leave its messages up to you, the listener, while also being targeted enough to make it clear it's trying to get a message across. My money is on escapism.

Not to mention the song structures and instrumentals absolutely bang.

An album that seems to represent everything good about this burgeoning reemergence of the post-punk scene: working-class oriented (and often abstract, stream-of-consciousness) lyrics, emotive and impressionistic vocals, grim atmospheres hiding slivers of hopeful determination, and shades of several modern genres spanning from electronica to post-rock, often all in the same track.

It’s nothing short of a miracle this album is as cohesive as it sounds.