It's Squirrel Flower Summer. So far the Chicago indie darling has previewed Say A Prayer To The Gods Of Getting Going with "Reelin," "Not Me," and "Sick Tooth," and now she's sharing a sweeping, sun-drenched shredder called "Cleveland."
"'Cleveland' is a song about choosing the city over the crush, about domesticity, about the strange magnetism of the city on Lake Erie, about the promise of the rust belt as a future site for climate migration," Ella Williams explains. "It's a song I originally wrote with my family band, 'uncommon rat.' I asked my siblings if I could use the song on my album and they both said yes."
She continues, "The video concept came from my mom, she had the idea of me hitchhiking to Cleveland and then cutting to a dream scene of this saccharine American domestic fantasy, à la Desperately Seeking Susan, which we saw together in theaters in February and have been obsessed with ever since."
Watch the Jackson James-directed video below.
Say A Prayer To The Gods Of Getting Going is out 8/21 via Polyvinyl.
