Squirrel Flower, announces her new LP, Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going, will drop on August 21st via Polyvinyl Record Co. Ahead of the album’s arrival, the artist has shared lead single/video, “Reelin.” Squirrel Flower recently announced her first full-band headlining tour in two years, kicking off this fall. Currently, Squirrel Flower is touring in support of The Beths and Spoon, and in August, she will support Ethel Cain in Chicago.

Commenting on “Reelin,” Williams says, “the lyrics started as an art piece I made on an overdue Kansas Turnpike toll bill. This song is my ode to the push and pull of domesticity and unraveling. Leaving and getting reeled back in, over and over and over and over.”

She continues: “This video was born from serendipity and divine timing. There was a huge storm at the time Clay, Jackson and I had planned to shoot in this industrial area I’d been scoping out, and we called the shoot off. At the last minute, I looked at the sky and decided it’d be worth trying. We pulled up to the spot just as the clouds were breaking and a gorgeous double rainbow shot across the sky out of the sparkling city. The other footage is from the Indiana dunes, referencing many performance art videos I’ve made of myself playing accordion with the dunes and factories in the background.”

The project of beloved Chicago-based artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Ella Williams, writing process for the album, was spread over various locations and tracked live at makeshift studio Merry Meadow in Door County, WI with a cast of Chicago music heads including co-producers Seth Engel and Jack Henry, and later painstakingly refined and rerecorded in Asheville, NC by Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Wednesday, Waxahatchee) at his Drop of Sun studios. In addition to Dave Hartley (The War on Drugs) and Seth Kauffman (Angel Olsen), both of whom played on Williams’ 2023 album Tomorrow’s Fire, Williams enlisted a cast of friends including Dimitri Giannopolous (Horse Jumper of Love), Sofia Jensen (Free Range), Clay Frankel (Twin Peaks), Andy Krull (Red PK), Book not Brooke (Babywave), and even family members Jameson, Jesse, and Nate Williams.

In many ways, Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going is about itself, about the process of its creation on the road. That isn’t to say that Say a Prayer is a travelogue. It’s more of a bittersweet testament to exploration and self possession, longing and musing. Vividly personal, it’s like a set of abandoned scrapbooks filled with ephemera, harvested from the side of the dusty freeway by some highway woman over her decades, piled up in a banker’s box in a backyard shed, tenuously protected from a desert monsoon. Past experiences lovingly chronicled, the future remains open for Williams as she hopes for a sign to help her know when to get going and when to stay still.

Squirrel Flower
Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going
Tracklist
Polyvinyl Record Co.

1. Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going
2. Cleveland
3. Not Me
4. Helicopters
5. Highway Woman
6. Reelin
7. Foot Thick Ice
8. Sick Tooth
9. Fought a Hornet
10. Surfing USA
11. Weightless, Untethered

Squirrel Flower 2026 Tour Dates

Tue. Jun. 16 – Charlotte, NC @ The Underground #
Wed. Jun. 17 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle # [SOLD OUT]
Thu. Jun. 18 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle # [SOLD OUT]
Sun. Jun. 21 – New Haven, CT @ College St Music Hall $
Tue. Jun. 23 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore $ [SOLD OUT]
Wed. Jun. 24 – Baltimore, MD @ Nevermore Music Hall $ [SOLD OUT]
Fri. Jun. 26 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore $ [SOLD OUT]
Sat. Jun. 27 – Cleveland, OH @ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame $
Sun. Jun. 28 – Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live! $
Tue. Jun. 30 – Newport, KY @ MegaCorp Pavilion $
Wed. Jul. 1 – Louisville, KY @ Iroquois Amphitheater $
Sun. Aug. 2 – Chicago, IL @ Metro ! [SOLD OUT]
Wed. Sept. 23 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop =
Thu. Sept. 24 – Toronto, ON @ Second Summer Festival
Fri. Sept. 25 – Montreal, QC @ La Sotterenea (POP Montreal Festival)
Sat. Sept. 26 – Boston, MA @ Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre =
Sun. Sept. 27 – Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse =
Tue. Sept. 29 – Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere – Rooftop*
Wed. Sept. 30 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s*
Thu. Oct. 1 – Washington, DC @ Union Stage*
Fri. Oct. 2 – Richmond, VA @ Richmond Music Hall*
Sat. Oct. 3 – Durham, NC @ Stanczyks*
Tue. Oct. 6 – Asheville, NC @ Revival*
Wed. Oct. 7 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl*
Thu. Oct. 8 – Nashville, TN @ Third Man Records – Blue Room*
Sat. Oct. 10 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Turntable*
Fri. Oct. 23 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway +
Sat. Oct. 24 – Lawrence, KS @ White Schoolhouse +
Sun. Oct. 25 – Fayetteville, AR @ George’s Majestic Lounge +
Tue. Oct. 27 – Dallas, TX @ Ruins +
Wed. Oct. 28 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger +
Thu. Oct. 29 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall Upstairs +
Fri. Oct. 30 – Austin, TX @ 29th Street Ballroom +
Sun. Nov. 1 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar +
Tue. Nov. 3 – Los Angeles, CA @ Sid the Cat Auditorium +
Wed. Nov. 4 – Ojai, CA @ Ojai Deer Lodge +
Thu. Nov. 5 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel +
Sat. Nov. 7 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern +
Sun. Nov. 8 – Vancouver, BC @ Wise Hall +
Mon. Nov. 9 – Olympia, WA @ Wild Child +
Wed. Nov. 11 – Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater +
Thu. Nov. 12 – Boise, ID @ Neurolux +
Fri. Nov. 13 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge +
Sun. Nov. 15 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall +
Tue. Nov. 17 – Omaha, NE @ Reverb +
Wed. Nov. 18 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe +
Thu. Nov. 19 – Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club +
Fri. Nov. 20 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall +

# supporting The Beths
$ supporting Spoon + The Beths
! supporting Ethel Cain
= w/ youbet
* w/ Dari Bay
+ w/ Sour Widows

Pre-Order Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going by Squirrel Flower HERE