Το A Prayer To The Gods Of Getting Going, τέταρτη κυκλοφορία της Ella Williams ως Squirrel Flower, αποτελεί ένα είδος μουσικού ημερολόγιου – η αίσθηση της περιπλάνησης και των ανοιχτών οριζόντων κυριαρχεί καθώς τα τραγούδια είναι γραμμένα στη διάρκεια της τελευταίας της περιοδείας. Η σχετική υποχώρηση του κιθαριστικού wall of sound του προηγούμενου, Tomorrow’s Fire (2023) αφήνει μια ambience ψυχεδελικών & folk αποχρώσεων, η οποία αναδεικνύει τη φωνή της singer-songwriter… Ακούμε τρία τραγούδια από το άλμπουμ. 🟡 🟡 🟡 A Prayer To The Gods Of Getting Going, Ella Williams’s fourth release as Squirrel Flower, is a kind of music diary: a sense of wandering and open horizons dominates, as the songs were written during her most recent tour. The relative retreat of the guitar wall of sound from the previous, Tomorrow’s Fire (2023), leaves room for an ambient wash of and psychedelic & folk tones that brings the singer-songwriter’s voice to the fore. We hear three songs from the album.

SAY A PRAYER TO THE GODS OF GETTING GOING
Open desert, open can on the corner
I don’t have nothing to say today man
Lately nothing’s
Been going my way
Say a prayer to the gods of getting going
Say a prayer to the gods of standing still
I feel glory passing by
In five years what will be growing?
Can I water the concrete?
And say a prayer to the gods of getting going
And say a prayer to the gods of standing still
And say a prayer to the gods of getting going
And say a prayer to the gods of standing still

REELIN’
Drink my coffee
Do my chores
Trash on Sunday
Boy in the yard
Sweet forgiveness
Like honey
I’m not trying
To make a mess out of your life
When I’m 30
I’m gonna have a husband
And a garden and a plan
And good intentions
And good credit
Til bad things call me back again
Call me back again
Figure 8 cars kicking up dirt
I believe in the beginning of the day
When I’m not wasted
Or trying not to be
All these women take it out of me
Take it out of me
Oh mama I didn’t miss him
But he’s reeling me back again
Oh mama I didn’t miss him
But he’s reeling me back again
Me back again

FOOT THICK ICE
Here we go again
Shit creeping in
Thought I’ve lost me
But now I’m found out
Bite your tongue again
Up all night again
Try to make believe
It’s all working out
I feel like
Foot-thick ice
I go slow
Take my time
Here we go again
Out on the weekend
Try to make believe
It’s all working out
Can’t you take a joke?
Got something to smoke?
Man, I gotta
Get out of here
I feel like
Foot-thick ice
I have hope
Hold the line