Squirrel Flower announces debut album

SQUIRREL FLOWER ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM I WAS BORN SWIMMING, OUT 31 JANUARY VIA FULL TIME HOBBY

SHARES VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE ‘RED SHOULDER’

ANNOUNCES SHOW AT LONDON’S THE ISLINGTON IN JANUARY

Watch the video for ‘Red Shoulder’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pge3R8wbvII

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Squirrel Flower – the moniker of Ella O’Connor Williams – announces I Was Born Swimming, her debut album, out January 31st on Full Time Hobby (Polyvinyl in the US), and presents the lead single/video, ‘Red Shoulder’. The album’s title was inspired by Williams’ birth on August 11th 1996 – the hottest day of the year – born still inside a translucent caul sac membrane, surrounded by amniotic fluid. Throughout the 12 songs, landscapes change and relationships shift. The album’s lyrics feel like effortless expressions of exactly the way it feels to change — abstract, determined and hopeful.

Squirrel Flower’s music is ethereal and warm, brimming over with emotional depth but with a steely eyed bite and confidence in it’s destination. The band on I Was Born Swimming plays with delicate intention, keeping the arrangements natural and light while Williams’ lead guitar is often fiercely untethered. The album was tracked live, with few overdubs, at The Rare Book Room Studio in New York City with producer Gabe Wax (Adrienne Lenker, Palehound, Cass McCombs). The musicians were selected by Wax and folded themselves into the songs effortlessly. At the heart of the album lives Williams’ haunting voice and melancholic, soulful guitar.

The sounds expand and contract over diverse moods, cutting loose on the heavier riffs of ‘Red Shoulder’. “‘Red Shoulder’ is a song about destabilisation and dissociation,” explains Williams. “Something soft and tender becomes warped and sinister, turning into sensory overload and confusion. How can something so lovely turn painful and claustrophobic? The song ends with a heavy and visceral guitar solo, attempting to reground what went awry.”

Williams comes from a deep-rooted musical family tree. Her grandparents were classical musicians who lived in the Gate Hill Co-op, an artistic cooperative from upstate New York that grew out of Black Mountain College. Ella’s father, Jesse Williams, spent most of his life as a touring jazz and blues performer and educator, and lends his bass playing to the album. Growing up in a family of hard working musicians fostered a love of music and started Williams down her own musical path. As a child, Williams adopted the alter ego of Squirrel Flower. A couple years later, she began singing with the Boston Children’s Chorus while studying music theory and teaching herself to play the guitar. As a teen, she discovered the Boston DIY and folk music scenes and began writing, recording, and performing her own songs, now returning to Squirrel Flower as her stage name.

Sheer determination and belief quickly saw her make a name for herself in this newly discovered scene. Doing everything from making videos to the production of her music herself she recorded two EP’s and began touring, supporting the likes of Soccer Mommy, Adrienne Lenker (Big Thief) and more. During this time the signature artful songcraft heard on I Was Born Swimming was formed.

Squirrel Flower has also today announced she will play a show at London‘s The Islington on 28 January.

Pre-order the I Was Born Swimming CD/LP including a limited edition Dinked version which features an exclusive 7″ here:
https://www.fulltimehobby.co.uk/release/squirrel-flower/i-was-born-swimming

Photo credit: Ally Schmaling

Live:

28 Jan – London @ The Islington – TICKETS

I Was Born Swimming tracklist:

1. I-80
2. Red Shoulder
3. Slapback
4. Eight Hours
5. Headlights
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7. Seasonal Affective Disorder
8. Home
9. Streetlight Blues
10. Rush
11. Belly of the City
12. I Was Born Swimming

Praise for Contact Sports EP:

“Williams’ songs are like tiny depth charges waiting to detonate”
Sunday Times ‘Breaking Act’

“This is really only the beginning for Squirrel Flower and the future is looking pretty damn good”
The Line of Best Fit, ‘Song of the Day’

“A ball of blinding devotion and guitar theatrics”
The 405 ‘Track of the Day’

“[Squirrel Flower] teams delicate strums of electric guitar with surging, powerful waves of distortion, and the duality gives the track its power”
DIY, Neu Pick

“Ella Williams’ music sways tentatively between reflective bedroom ballads and crushing indie rock choruses”
Crack

“Squirrel Flower has a real knack for conjuring up warm, almost heartbreakingly tender tracks”
Notion

“By fourteen she was taking songwriting seriously, and now aged twenty-one looks set to take world by storm”
For The Rabbits