Squirrel Flower - Tomorrow's Fire - VINYL LP

Squirrel Flower's heart-rending sophomore album Planet (i), following her 2020 debut I Was Born Swimming, is exactly that. A singular planet, a world entirely of artist Ella Williams' making. The title came first to her as a joke it's her made-up name for the new planet people will inevitably settle and destroy after leaving Earth, as well as the universe imagined within her music. InchPlanet (i) is my body and mind, Inch Williams says, Inchand it's the physical and emotional world of our planet. It's both.InchBuoyed by her steadfast vision and propelled by her burning comet of a voice, the record is a love letter to disaster in every form imaginable. Tornadoes, flooding, gaslighting assholes, cars on fire-these songs fully embrace a planet in ruin.As Williams rides from melancholy to jubilance to complete emotional devastation over the course of twelve songs, she carves out a future for herself and those she loves. Planet (i), out June 25, 2021 on Polyvinyl, is at once a refuge, an act of self-healing, and a musical reflection of Squirrel Flower's inner and outer worlds.

Squirrel Flower is the alias 22-year-old Ella Williams adopted for herself when writing songs and poetry as a child. Coming from a professional musical family spanning generations, Williams has always been surrounded by music. By 14 she started writing more seriously and released her first EP of folk music under her own name. After immersing herself in the DIY scene of her Boston hometown before moving to Iowa to study art + gender, women's, & sexuality studies at Grinnell College, she found a more experimental sound, linking her choral roots, classical harmony and ethereal chord structures, and released her first EP as Squirrel Flower, Early Winter Songs From Middle America. Her second EP, Contact Sports, is a perfectly formed collection of songs about relationships; intimacy, dependency, betrayal and geography, set to the backdrop of the American midwest. The songs represent push and pull of love and intimacy while also being meditations on place. From the fulsome guitar and visceral, cathartic breakdown of lead single InchConditionsInch to the carefully layered beauty of InchHands Melt,Inch this varied collection frequently impresses with it's maturity and craftsmanship. Tracks like the fuzzy, dimly-lit euphoria of InchDaylight SavingsInch are spellbinding in their turn of phrase as Williams sings InchI know we've gained an hour, but I feel like we've lost two.Inch

Heartfelt, energetic, and down home. Heralded by CMT Edge as Inchone of the most promising bands on the bluegrass scene,Inch the music of the Nashville based group The Barefoot Movement is as down to earth as their intention for members of their audience sit back, relax, take your shoes off and stay a while.