#3728 Squid - Lino

3.5/5 a simmering, mini-masterpiece of patient rock texture. There's no sign here of the blistering, brilliant EP they'd put out two years later, but there's still some nascent unknowable magic. The longer two songs here don't sound slowed down... they just unfold this way, as naturally and inevitably as glaciers. Even Squid's career's a slow burn, as they dribble out a song or four at a time; every snapshot of their evolution's worth hearing. A first-round-pick Band To Watch.