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Floodwater Angel BY TOSIN FASEEMO Floodwater Angel is a St. Paul-based psychedelic glam band. It is composed of vocalist Madeline Knorr, bassist Dillon LaFollette-James, guitarist Jack Squier, and drummer Sam Tudor. Keep reading to find out about their musical inspirations.
: Your band name is really pretty; is there a meaning behind it?
: How would you describe your genre of music?
D: When we were picking a band name, we were just throwing a bunch of words around. We really wanted floodwater to be involved. We had this cool idea of ’floodwater angel’ because of that classic painting imagery where someone is drowning in a flood and they look up and see an angel there about to rescue them. We wanted our band to be in a moshpit of ‘floodwater’ with us as the angels.
D: In the good year of 2020, genre doesn’t really matter. We decided that psychedelic rock is a good genre to call ourselves because there are so many different types of psychedelic rock bands. We have a country rock song, we do some glam stuff, we have some classic rock music. We just stick with that psych rock genre because it lets us be more free with what we’re doing.
: How did you all meet? M: I met Sam in orchestra my freshman year. We were both violinists. Then I was friends with a previous guitarist we had who brought in Dillon. We met our current guitarist at a show. D: Jack opened for us as a solo artist, and we were so impressed. We were like, “do you want to play with us?” and Jack said. “Hell yeah.”
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: Are all of you originally from Minneapolis? M: I am from La Crosse, Wisconsin. I moved up here three years ago for school. S: I am originally from South Minneapolis, but I grew up in a tiny town about an hour south of here called Wanamingo. D: I’m from San Jose, California, but I moved to Minnesota in 2002 or so. I lived in Anoka from then
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