A powerful, dark, simmering, emotional new album by the Boston-born indie-folk artist Ella Williams titled as a love letter to disaster in every form imaginable and embracing a planet in ruin, on a journey of decay and healing. Overcoming three concussions from 2019-2020, Williams gradually put together, first online with and then at the Bristol studio of Ali Chant, playing most of the instruments between them, with additional work by drummer Matt Brown and Portishead’s Adrian Utley, the songs have a potent stillness and intimacy as well as momentum, from I’ll Go Running to Hurt a Fly, the slow, sensual Roadkill, the exquisite Big Beast, the gentle acoustic of Iowa 146, Flames and Flat Tyres, or the echoey build from fragility to a fuzz of stormy shoegaze feedback on the song Night. Dark, broody and at times brilliant. Out on Full Time Hobby / Polyvinyl Records.
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