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████ GENRE...[ Indie GRABBER.[ PRC435D ████
████ LABEL...[ Full Time Hobby ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████
████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 160kbps ████
████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Stereo ████
████ PLAYTIME[ 55:38 REL.DATE[ 06.25.2021 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 12 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 104,41 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 I'll Go Running 08:11 ████
████ 02 Hurt a Fly 06:27 ████
████ 03 Deluge in the South 03:05 ████
████ 04 Big Beast 01:58 ████
████ 05 Roadkill 03:34 ████
████ 06 Iowa 146 04:16 ████
████ 07 Pass 03:51 ████
████ 08 Flames and Flat Tires 05:37 ████
████ 09 To Be Forgotten 04:54 ████
████ 10 Desert Wildflowers 03:44 ████
████ 11 Night 04:49 ████
████ 12 Starshine 05:12 ████
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████ TOTAL: 55:38 ████
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████ https://squirrelflower.bandcamp.com/album/plane ████
████ t-i ████
████ ████
████ Squirrel FlowerÆs heart-rending sophomore album ████
████ Planet (i), following her 2020 debut I Was Born ████
████ Swimming, is exactly that. A singular planet, a ████
████ world entirely of artist Ella WilliamsÆ making. ████
████ The title came first to her as a joke: itÆs her ████
████ made-up name for the new planet people will ████
████ inevitably settle and destroy after leaving ████
████ Earth, as well as the universe imagined within ████
████ her music. ôPlanet (i) is my body and mind,ö ████
████ Williams says, ôand itÆs the physical and ████
████ emotional world of our planet. ItÆs both.ö ████
████ Buoyed by her steadfast vision and propelled by ████
████ her burning comet of a voice, the record is a ████
████ love letter to disaster in every form ████
████ imaginable. Tornadoes, flooding, gaslighting ████
████ assholes, cars on fireùthese songs fully ████
████ embrace a planet in ruin. As Williams rides ████
████ from melancholy to jubilance to complete ████
████ emotional devastation over the course of twelve ████
████ songs, she carves out a future for herself and ████
████ those she loves. Planet (i), out June 25, 2021 ████
████ on Polyvinyl and Full Time Hobby, is at once a ████
████ refuge, an act of self-healing, and a musical ████
████ reflection of Squirrel FlowerÆs inner and outer ████
████ worlds. ████
████ ████
████ Williams wrote most of the songs on Planet (i) ████
████ before the COVID-19 pandemic, but disaster ████
████ looms large in its DNA. Susceptible to head ████
████ injuries having played a lot of sports in her ████
████ youth, Williams received three concussions from ████
████ 2019-2020; two at cafe jobs in her home state ████
████ of Massachusetts, and a third, funnily enough, ████
████ while making out with someone in a sloped attic ████
████ at a house show. Amidst the chaos of touring ████
████ internationally during her own healing process, ████
████ she began weaving threads between her physical ████
████ and personal sense of ruin and her lifelong ████
████ fear of the elements: of being swept up by ████
████ storms, floods, and the deep ocean. ôTo ████
████ overcome my fear of disasters,ö Williams says, ████
████ ôI had to embody them, to stare them down.ö ████
████ This journey of decay and healing is the ████
████ lifeblood of Planet (i). ôIÆm not scared of the ████
████ storm,ö she insists on ôDesert Wildflowers.ö ████
████ ôIÆll be lying on the roof when the tornado ████
████ turns.ö ████
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████ Once quarantine set in, Williams, known for her ████
████ magnetic live concerts, began to produce demos ████
████ in her room, amassing a collection of more than ████
████ 30 recordings. ôI constantly write,ö she says, ████
████ ôbut because of the pandemic and the ████
████ unemployment checks I received, I was able to ████
████ spend every day recording what became the ████
████ skeleton of this album.ö Feeling a sense of ████
████ artistic synchronicity over international phone ████
████ calls with producer Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, ████
████ Perfume Genius), and with newfound covid ████
████ antibodies, Williams flew to Bristol, UK in the ████
████ fall of 2020 to record Planet (i) at ChantÆs ████
████ studio, The Playpen. ôWe had this shared ████
████ creative language,ö she recalls, ôand the ████
████ recording process was, like my demo process, ████
████ very sculptural. Instead of recording live with ████
████ a full band, we built this record layer by ████
████ layer, experimenting, taking risks.ö Williams ████
████ dedicated her time in Bristol to exploration, ████
████ both in the studio and outside of it. As she ████
████ roamed the city in her beloved green garden ████
████ mucks, the same boots featured on Planet (i)Æs ████
████ album art, Squirrel Flower unlocked a new ████
████ creative alchemy. ████
████ ████
████ While Williams and Chant played most of the ████
████ instruments on the record, Bristol drummer Matt ████
████ Brown and PortisheadÆs Adrian Utley also joined ████
████ their sessions. ôAdrian brought such stunning ████
████ textures to the arrangements,ö Williams says. ████
████ ôI was starstruck watching him play guitar with ████
████ a pair of pliers.ö And when Chant suggested the ████
████ idea of backup vocals, Williams, whose voice ████
████ had until now stood alone in her songs, ████
████ enthusiastically enlisted friends and family to ████
████ join her remotely with their voices and ████
████ instruments. Around Squirrel FlowerÆs voice and ████
████ vision dance the contributions of Jess Shoman ████
████ (Tenci), Tomberlin, Katy J. Pearson, Jemima ████
████ Coulter, Brooke Bentham, and her brothers Nate ████
████ and Jameson Williams, as well as her father ████
████ Jesse. ████
████ ████
████ The songs on Planet (i) are Squirrel FlowerÆs ████
████ instruments for connection: with the people in ████
████ her life, her collaborators, audiences, and ████
████ ancestors; a lineage of artists whose spirits ████
████ continue to inform her art. At the heart of ████
████ this record is an insistence on connection and ████
████ healing in the face of catastrophe. Williams ████
████ treats her songs like well-loved cars, vehicles ████
████ with busted exteriors and flame-kissed engines. ████
████ These songs hurtle down a freeway wracked by ████
████ firestorms and flash floods, their drivers in ████
████ search of human connection, no matter how ████
████ tenuous, no matter how painful. In this search ████
████ for communion, Squirrel Flower sings with the ████
████ clarity of an artist who has discovered not ████
████ only the precise power of her voice, but all ████
████ the devastating shapes it can take. ████
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████ On the explosive lead single ôHurt A Fly,ö ████
████ Williams is a volatile, relentless presence. ████
████ She takes the persona of a manipulative lover ████
████ as she lurches from guilt to sorrow to renewed ████
████ fury, backed by whirring, frenetic guitars. And ████
████ in ôIÆll Go Running,ö Williams begins on a ████
████ haunting simmer, pitching her voice over ████
████ languid, slow-burning guitars from quiet ████
████ resistance to full-on emotional rebellion by ████
████ the songÆs end: ôIÆll be newer than before / ████
████ IÆll be something that youÆve never seen.ö ItÆs ████
████ the mantra of an artist in flux, obsessed with ████
████ motion and change, but determined to move and ████
████ change on her own terms. On ôFlames and Flat ████
████ Tires,ö the third single, Williams rides this ████
████ motion onward in a bright wave of sound, ████
████ comparing her body to a burning car on a 4am ████
████ joyride, the city crumbling behind her. ████
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████ On Planet (i), Squirrel Flower reveals a bright ████
████ and uncompromising vision, confident in her ████
████ powers of self-healing and growth. No matter ████
████ what the disaster ahead of or within her looks ████
████ like, and no matter how she shape-shifts to ████
████ meet it, Squirrel Flower will always be a world ████
████ of her own, a space-rock flying down the road ████
████ in flames and flat tires. As Planet (i) wheels ████
████ to a close from the cartop lovesickness of ████
████ ôIowa 146,ö the floodwaters of ôDeluge in the ████
████ South,ö and the tornado fury of ôPass,ö to the ████
████ hushed climax and acceptance of ôStarshine,ö ████
████ she leaves us to face down disaster with hope ████
████ in hand: ████
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████ DonÆt let it pass. ████
████ DonÆt let it wither. ████
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