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9.0
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DIY
An album of immense power and conviction
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9.0
134206
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Monolith, like Field, is stylistically far-ranging, the band as adept as ever when it comes to working with polarities, including cohesion/dissolution, maximalism/minimalism, and ecstasy/dejection
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8.5
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Beats Per Minute
O Monolith is chaotic and improvisational to the bone
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Skinny
For most bands, this tapestry of sounds would flounder and reject its connectivity, but Squid successfully stitch diverse concepts into one brooding work
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8.0
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Dork
An intricate web that is an absolute joy to get tangled up in
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8.0
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musicOMH
The post-punks’ second album juxtaposes delicate melodies and introspective moments with bursts of raw energy
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8.0
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Northern Transmissions
O Monolith is simply the result of giving a young, creative band too much time together on the road. It’s fresh, it’s left-of-center and incredibly energetic
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8.0
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All Music
Reprising her collaboration from their debut is singer Martha Skye Murphy, along with new foils Roger Bolton (Real World's resident technologist) and Tortoise's John McEntire, who mixed the album. All of this adds up to another well-made record that evolved from Squid's origins
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8.0
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Spectrum Culture
If you sit with this one long enough, it may just consume you like the undergrowth beneath you
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8.0
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The Quietus
The bending of time and place and sights and sounds across this record leaves the listener with plenty to digest and a lot to be excited for with what’s to come from Squid
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8.0
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8.0 |
NME
Bolstered by a newfound sense of self-confidence and appreciation for melody, the five-piece's more experimental second album reveals more of itself with each enchanting listen
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8.0
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Loud And Quiet
This ever-evolving, multi-legged creature is a mere squid no longer
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8.0
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Clash
No less inviting than their debut, while asserting its own identity at every corner, ‘O Monolith’ is a fine second album
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8.0
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Mojo
O Monolith is no less bold of palette - opener Swing (in A Dream) embraces taut post-punk chug, jazz trumpet and enveloping synths - but always follows a lucid, compelling logic. Print edition only
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8.0
134220
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Uncut
O Monolith channels the shapeshifting patterns of Steve Reich and late-period Radiohead to fashion a kind of lush English pastoral that seethes and shimmers at every turn. Print edition only
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8.0
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Gigwise
Chaos and control
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7.3
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Pitchfork
The English band’s second album explores big questions with a bucolic, open-ended new sound. Where once they surged forward, now they wander
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7.0
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7.0 |
Under The Radar
It’s still Squid at their most experimental, but it has more bark than bite
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
Squid follow up 2020’s Bright Green Field with a tighter, leaner, more refined version of their signature melding of sonic chaos and compositional ambition
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