Squid - Music Hall of Williamsburg

The opening artist was Deliluh, a talented duo who've been supporting Squid across their current tour. Playing post-punk backed by thumping industrial beats and drum machines, they showed an impressive versatility in instrumentation and style across their by turns dour and excoriating set. My personal highlight of theirs was the unexpected saxophone solo in the middle of their performance.

Squid themselves showed their own eclecticism across their Bright Green Field heavy set, constantly switching instruments and going from brash songs to quieter jams and drones. They also debuted three new cuts - "Nines", "Sevens", and "Fugue" - and brought back the oft forgotten 2020 track "Sludge". Avalanches of creativity and power abounded, and Squid - and lead singer/drummer Ollie Judge in particular - showed an engaging humility and love of the performance, as well as an anecdote about catching sight of a Sopranos actor in an Italian restaurant the previous evening.

They switched up their setlist a tinge last night, moving "Pamphlets" from mid-set to closer coming almost directly off the climactic "Narrator" that heretofore was the last song of their shows this tour. The already engaged and energetic crowd took to moshing across the front and center of the pit across these now brilliantly welded cuts, with yours truly giving up a stagefront spot between Judge and Louis Borlase that I held for the rest of the set to join the fray. Suffice to say that Squid jumped up to one of my all time favorite live acts with their volcanic show.