If a throughline exists in the decade of Squirrel Flower's repertoire, it's a projection of time and place. A 'Squirrel Flower song' is, if anything, a snapshot of Chicago-based songwriter Ella Williams' feelings in a given moment, extrapolated into a character, or a train of thought, or a (super)natural phenomenon. Of her fourth studio album released by Polyvinyl Records (and sixth full-length to date), Say A Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going, Williams describes each song as a living archive of a moment or a place, given the space to live on its own outside of the forceful progression of time. The transcendent title track begins where 2023's Tomorrow's Fire leaves off. Both spacious and thunderous, it's a meditation on movement and stasis, future and past, delivered with a power that verges on mystical. This is where Say a Prayer stands out as a singular and monumental classic. In crafting a collage of landscapes and characters (Williams wrote over thirty songs in the process), she skillfully weaves together a timeless love album. Just as the generational richness of Williams' voice cuts through each track's darkness or playfulness, so does an unmistakable depth of feeling. Love for friends, for landscape, for relentless touring, for her own ideas and feelings, for life itself, for some elusive lover Williams chases to each of her stops along the road.

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Genre

Alternative Rock

Format

LP · 1 disc

Release

21-08-2026

Label

Polyvinyl

Item-nr

1323898

EAN

0644110052612

Availability

In stock · 1 item