Out Now: Squirrel Flower’s Say a Prayer… 🛞
– Matt Wilkinson, Apple Music Radio 1
“…a travelogue of vast American highways and fleeting encounters … a raw, newfound trust in her own voice.” – Chicago Sun-Times
“…Williams proves herself one of indie rock’s greatest travel writers, an expert at forging a new path from a dead end.” – Pitchfork
“Ella Williams at her most intimate, open and musically omnivorous… the subtle yet powerful force that permeated Williams’ early DIY recordings finds its fullest expression yet here, interweaving the personal and universal with poetic grace” – MOJO, ★★★★
“It’s Squirrel Flower Summer.” – Stereogum
The sixth overall album (and fourth with Polyvinyl) from the project of beloved Chicago-based artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Ella Williams, finds her sounding more like herself than ever before.
While created on the road, it’s a bittersweet testament to exploration and self possession, longing and musing. The push and pull of exploring vs. domesticity.
Vividly personal, it’s like a set of abandoned scrapbooks filled with ephemera, harvested from the side of the dusty freeway by some highway woman over her decades, piled up in a banker’s box in a backyard shed, tenuously protected from a desert monsoon.
Past experiences lovingly chronicled, the future remains open for Williams as she hopes for a sign to help her know when to get going and when to stay still.
Limited-Edition Cloudy Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl
Sage Green Vinyl
Test Pressing
CD
Tape
Available individually or bundled along with the Rainbow t-shirt, sticker, and/or the Squirrel Flower Mesh Vintage baseball hat.
Ella Williams on the song & video:
“The video concept came from my mom, she had the idea of me hitchhiking to Cleveland and then cutting to a dream scene of this saccharine American domestic fantasy, à la Desperately Seeking Susan, which we saw together in theaters in February and have been obsessed with ever since.”
