Last year, on the heels of her debut I Was Born Swimming, Ella Williams spoke about one of the four elements. “I’d say my relationship with water is one of being in awe and being terrified by the ...

As severe storms struck Chicago on Sunday night, Ella Williams was coming home from a music-video shoot. Walking to her apartment, she felt a strange yet familiar sensation. “There was thunder and ...

The music of Ella Williams as Squirrel Flower is a bridge between concealed feelings and the endless frontier of the universe. “I’ll be newer than before,” she murmurs on “I’ll Go Running,” the ...

“Hey, sorry, I have peanut butter toast in my mouth,” Ella Williams, AKA Squirrel Flower, says when she picks up my call in early June. We’re about to dive into Planet (i), her third record, but first ...

The title of Squirrel Flower’s debut record, I Was Born Swimming, pays reference to her troubled birth, coming out of the womb floating in amniotic fluid. Where her debut record represented a birth, a ...

Artist To Watch Squirrel Flower, aka Ella Williams, released her third studio album, Planet (i), earlier this year. Now, Williams has announced a follow-up EP, Planet, out in January next year. Along ...