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Florence + The Machine Shares Details, First Single From New Album Everybody Scream
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Florence + The Machine are officially back—and more mystical than ever. The band has returned with a new single, the title track from their just-announced album, Everybody Scream. The news arrived via Florence Welch’s social media after she posted a haunting teaser featuring her screaming into a hole in an empty field. Shortly after, the full title track and its accompanying music video were released.
Set for release on October 31, Everybody Scream promises an eerie and witchcraft-laced soundscape—fitting for Halloween. According to Welch, the record is deeply rooted in themes of mysticism, mortality, and recovery. It follows the group’s 2022 album, Dance Fever, and was written during a period of intense personal healing after a life-saving operation.
An Album Born from Recovery and Reflection
Back in 2023, Florence + The Machine were forced to cancel festival appearances. Later, Welch revealed she had undergone “emergency surgery for reasons I don’t really feel strong enough to go into yet,” she wrote on social media, “but it saved my life.”
Since then, Welch has poured the past two years into writing and producing Everybody Scream. She worked alongside collaborators such as IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen, Mitski, and The National’s Aaron Dessner. The album consists of 12 tracks and explores themes like womanhood, death, aging, and mythology. Pre-orders are already available.
Fear, Stage Fright, and Artistic Vulnerability
In a livestreamed conversation with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on August 20, Welch reflected on the album’s emotional origins. She spoke candidly about the fear that still accompanies putting her art into the world—even after years in the spotlight.
“There’s always a bit of me that wants to keep hiding—like, ‘No no no, I’m not ready, put it off,’” she said. “This time, I challenged myself to not delay a record. I was like, ‘Just move through the fear and put it out.’”
That fear forms the emotional core of the album’s first single, which examines the conflicting pull between retreating from the spotlight and the irresistible call to return to the stage.
“Every time I go back, it takes a little bit more from me,” Welch added.
A Personal and Mythical Record
Although Welch once considered Dance Fever her most personal work, she now sees Everybody Scream as taking that title. Paradoxically, she says this vulnerability gave the record a mythical tone.
“I think this is my most personal record to date,” she explained. “Which has also made it in some ways my most mythological. I had to find a world that I could build around it that was really solid.”
The Power of the Scream
The album’s central theme—screaming—is no coincidence. It represents both release and ritual. Welch joked about forming the idea for the project after seeing a playlist titled Songs to Scream Along To.
“I was like, ‘What does that mean? You just put this playlist on and scream alone in your house, into the floor?’” she mused.
Welch also touched on her tendency to isolate while working. Friends often check in on her, asking, “Have you been outside today? Did you get out of the cry corner? Have you stopped screaming into the ground?”
Clarifying with a laugh, she added, “This isn’t the cry corner. I’m in my study. The lungs from Lungs are in here. There’s artwork from all the albums. This is a happy corner. The cry corner is elsewhere.”
With Everybody Scream set to drop on October 31, and its emotionally raw first single already out, Florence + The Machine invites listeners into a new world—one where fear, healing, and catharsis all scream together in unison.
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