Alternative/Indie folk rock artist Ella Williams (A.K.A. Squirrel Flower) hits the 7th Street Entry on January 20, 2024. Kicking off her tour in Chicago, the city where she’s currently based, Williams is paying Minneapolis a visit on its second night.
Local band PRODUCTS alongside LA-based Goon will be accompanying Williams on stage, ensuring an evening of electric performances.
Squirrel Flower:
The music Ella Williams makes as Squirrel Flower has always communicated a strong sense of place. Her self-released debut EP, 2015’s early winter songs from middle america, was written during her first year living in Iowa, where the winter months make those of her hometown, Boston, seem quaint by comparison. Since that first offering, Squirrel Flower amassed a fanbase beyond the Boston DIY scene and has released two more EPs and two full-lengths. The most recent, Planet (i), was laden with climate anxiety, while the subsequent Planet EP marked an important turning point in Williams’ prolific career; the collection of demos was the first self-produced material she’d released in some time. With a renewed confidence as a producer, she helmed her new album Tomorrow’s Fire at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville alongside storied engineer Alex Farrar.
PRODUCTS:
Products Band is a guitar rock band from Minneapolis, MN. Their debut LP, Pink Puma, was released in the spring of 2021, and finds the band mixing lyrical sarcasm and sincerity while laser-sharp guitar work dances atop galloping drums-and-bass. Stretching out into the broader world of left-field rock music, the band draws inspiration from late-’70s/early ’80s melodic punk/post-punk/new wave/no wave/art-pop as well as modern iterations of this sound. Formed in early 2018, the group has since toured the US and acted as local support with groups like Dehd, Gustaf, Shopping, Bodega, and Tenci.
Goon:
“Come along and wake up on the way,” sings Goon frontman Kenny Becker, “orange shapes arrange and change again/quiet Isaac in a mild dream.” The lyric evokes the hazy dreamscape spaces occupied by the band’s new album, Hour of Green Evening. Goon began as Becker’s Bandcamp solo project in 2015. At a friend’s encouragement, Becker compiled the best of his tracks and released them as an EP, 2016’s Dusk of Punk. He recruited bandmates from his college buddies and released a second EP, all the while working on the band’s first full-length, 2019’s Heaven is Humming on Partisan Records, followed by the self-released Paint By Numbers 1, a collection of his mid-pandemic home recordings. The evolution of Goon has come to full fruition on Hour of Green Evening. It’s the band’s most complete statement, engaging all aspects of their sound to stunning effect. The album thrums with mystery, with the half-remembered past hazy as dreams, the mixed sense of comfort and longing for freedom so essential to youth.
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