PHOTO CREDIT // HOLLY WHITAKER
NEW SINGLE // PAMPHLETS
DEBUT ALBUM // BRIGHT GREEN FIELD // 7 MAY 2021
SQUID have released PAMPHLETS, the third and final single from their forthcoming debut album BRIGHT GREEN FIELD. Produced by Dan Carey, the album will be released on 7 May via Warp Records. The single begins with plucked guitars and precise rhythms before the band close in to create a wall of sound as they tear into the fabric of their own music to reach a breathless, breakneck conclusion.
Ollie on PAMPHLETS: “It’s about all the rubbish right-wing propaganda you get through your front door. It imagines a person with that as their only source of news being taken over by these pamphlets.”
SQUID recently recorded a ‘live to vinyl’ session for Record Store Day which was also broadcast live on the Steve Lamacq show on BBC 6 Music, and for which they enlisted string and horn players for new arrangements. Previous singles NARRATOR and PADDLING both landed on the BBC 6 Music A-list, drawing great critical acclaim and heightening anticipation for one of the most exciting debut albums of the year.
BRIGHT GREEN FIELD features field recordings of ringing church bells, tooting bees, microphones swinging from the ceiling orbiting a room of guitar amps, a distorted choir of 30 voices, as well as a horn and string ensemble featuring the likes of Emma-Jean Thackray and Lewis Evans from Black Country, New Road. However, for all the innovative recording techniques, evolutionary leaps, lyrical themes, ideas and narratives that underpin the album, it’s also a joyous and emphatic record. One that marries the uncertainties of the world with a curious sense of exploration as it endlessly twists and turns down unpredictable avenues.
Pre-order BRIGHT GREEN FIELD here: https://squid.ffm.to/bright-green-field
BRIGHT GREEN FIELD track listing:
- Resolution Square
- G.S.K
- Narrator feat. Martha Skye Murphy
- Boy Racers
- Paddling
- Documentary Filmmaker
- 2010
- The Flyover
- Peel St
- Global Groove
- Pamphlets
Formed in Brighton SQUID is the brainchild of:
- LOUIS BORLASE (guitar and vocals)
- OLLIE JUDGE (drums and lead vocals)
- ARTHUR LEADBETTER (keyboards, strings and percussion)
- LAURIE NANKIVELL (bass and brass)
- ANTON PEARSON (guitars and vocals)
Following recent announcements of the band’s rescheduled headline UK and EU tour and their socially distanced Fieldworks tour comes news of the first ever SQUID headline USA tour in November this year. UK dates for 2021 as follows:
FIELDWORKS TOUR
MAY 2021
Wed 19 FALMOUTH Cornish Bank
Thu 20 TOTNES St Mary’s
Sat 22 BRISTOL Cube *
Wed 26 CHIPPENHAM Old Road Tavern *
Fri 28 HULL Adelphi *
JUNE 2021
Tue 01 SHEFFIELD Leadmill
Thu 03 MANCHESTER Stoller Hall *
Sat 05 LONDON Silver Building *
Mon 07 NORWICH Halls
Wed 09 BEXHILL ON SEA De La Warr Pavilion
Sat 12 MARGATE Cliftonville Hall
* Two shows back to back
BRIGHT GREEN FIELD HEADLINE TOUR
SEPTEMBER 2021
Tue 07 BRIGHTON Concorde 2
Thu 09 BRISTOL Marble Factory
Fri 10 MANCHESTER Albert Hall
Thu 23 LONDON Printworks
Fri 24 BIRMINGHAM Crossing
Sat 25 NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Mon 27 NEWCASTLE NUSU
Tue 28 GLASGOW SWG3
Wed 29 BELFAST Empire
Thu 30 DUBLIN Button Factory
OCTOBER 2021
Sun 03 CARDIFF Tramshed
Mon 04 SOUTHAMPTON The 1865
Tue 05 EXETER Phoenix
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