Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream
★★★
POLYDOR
In 2022, Florence Welch’s Dance Fever tour was derailed when she suffered a potentially fatal health scare. Since then, she’s recovered and kept her powder dry, making a high-profile appearance on Taylor Swift’s Florida!!!, a more covert one on The Weeknd’s Reflections Laughing and sneaking out a smattering of covers. She’s now working alongside Idles guitarist Mark Bowen and Everybody Scream is both a re-statement of what made her so beguiling and a gentle step forwards.
Medical worries hover (“sometimes my body seems so alien to me,” she sighs on Kraken), but the wind tunnel that is You Can Have It All and the howling title track could have graced debut album Lungs. More encouragingly, the epic One Of The Greats, the cascading hooks of Witch Dance and the atypically tender Buckle are signs of an artist broadening her horizons.
Everybody Scream is out now on Polydor.
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Tracklisting:
1. Everybody Scream
2. One of the Greats
3. Witch Dance
4. Sympathy Magic
5. Perfume and Milk
6. Buckle
7. Kraken
8. The Old Religion
9. Drink Deep
10. Music by Men
11. You Can Have It All
12. And Love
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