Squirrel Flower Shares Two New Singles “Not Me” & “Sick Tooth”

Squirrel Flower, the project of Chicago-based artist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ella Williams, presents two new singles/videos, “Not Me” and “Sick Tooth,” from her fourth studio album, Say Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going, which will be out on August 21, through Polyvinyl Record Co. Not Me” is an epic heartland rock single emerging from a dream Williams had one night in New Mexico, in which the subtleties and grandeur of her voice demand room to shine. “Sick Tooth,” conversely, is a brief indie-rock song with fuzzed out guitars; the song is coupled with a powerwashing video for all the sickos out there.

While talking about “Not Me,” Williams explains: “This song came to me upon waking in Silver City, NM. I literally rolled out of bed, having had a dream about somebody, grabbed my guitar and pressed record. I’d been reading ‘Women Who Run with the Wolves,’ my grand handbook for life. I was reading a passage about not compromising. Not ‘taking what you can get,’ but taking all that you wish for. Not in a gluttonous way, rather refusing to deprive yourself of desires and the intuitive flow towards those desires.” She continues: “I’d been listening to so much Linda Ronstadt when I wrote it, and I think that really came through. I wanted to let myself really sing, and produce and arrange the song in a way that allowed that.”