Sled Island presents: Jessica Pratt with Squirrel Flower and Cedric Noel

Jessica Pratt
Jessica Pratt sounds like she’s reciting some old incantations in an isolated tower overlooking the sea. There’s loneliness, sure, but louder than that is the sound of someone intimately resigned to occupying their own space with maturity and grace. Her crackling voice, confidently spare fingerpicking and private lyricism are uttered for her alone, untainted by the lens of the spectator.

Squirrel Flower
Ella Williams’ heavenly voice pulls back and forth from conversational musings to soaring coos like the mighty tide rocking an infinitesimal sailboat. Her choral training is apparent in her expansive range, and each song on 2018’s Contact Sports remains planted on earth due to her creaky-cozy guitar accompaniment.

Cedric Noel
Cedric Noel’s music lives in the calm before the crescendo. Anchored in folk but relentlessly experimental, his songs are spacious, each one a vast cavern lined with glistening, finger-picked melodies and echo-laden ambiance. Like his voice, his songs are confident, resolute, quiet without being hushed, building their power through patience, not volume.