Album Review
Squirrel Flower - I Was Born Swimming
3-5 StarsAn accomplished first full-length.
The first thing that hits you with ‘I Was Born Swimming’ is the brutally honest nature of it all. There’s an overriding sense that this is going to be a wholesome, riveting and warm record from the opening guitar notes of ‘I-80’. Hunches have a habit of being right. Squirrel Flower’s debut very much feels like a commentary or a dialogue rather than anything overtly preconceived. The gentle guitars perfectly tee up each song and its overall ambience, and ‘Red Shoulder’ packs a beautiful, leafy and autumnal style along the lines of Kurt Vile, Phoebe Bridgers, or Snail Mail. There’s a real sense of space, Squirrel Flower already showing herself to be an artist comfortable in her own skin. They aren’t all hushed ballads though, the instrumentation even verges on grungy at times, but make no mistake, there’s an absolute flow here. An accomplished first full-length.
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Squirrel Flower announces new album, ‘Tomorrow’s Fire’
The record will be the artist’s fifth LP, and a follow-up to 2021’s ‘Planet (I)’.
18th July 2023, 3:00pm
Squirrel Flower covers Björk’s ‘Unravel’ and shares new track ‘Ruby At Dawn’
Her new ‘Planet’ EP will arrive next year.
7th December 2021, 12:00am
Squirrel Flower announces 2022 tour
Kicking off in the US in February!
13th September 2021, 12:00am
Squirrel Flower - Planet (i)
3 Stars
A vocalisation of the anxieties of an entire civilisation, the blow softened by satin guitar tones and roaming melodies.
24th June 2021, 7:56am
Featuring SOFT PLAY, Corinne Bailey Rae, 86TVs, English Teacher and more!