US EditionFlorence + The Machine - Everybody Scream review: 'Man-rock destroying epic'
Florence Welch channels personal trauma and resilience into her album, addressing female challenges in rock with powerful lyrics and ambitious music praised as album of the year.
- In recent years Florence Welch released Everybody Scream, reclaiming her shaman-priestess stage persona as the title track opens with organs and choral singing before glam-rock drums and bass.
- After a Cornwall gig that ended in hospitalisation, Florence Welch said the album emerged `in a furious burst` following a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage.
- Musically, the record blends a dirtier guitar edge with punk grit and widescreen classical elements, while Sympathy Magic and Kraken use huge percussion and orchestral scope for a Wall of Sound.
- Critics hail the record as a triumphant, album-of-the-year contender with otherworldly magic, suggesting it may appear on Top 100 Album Lists and inspire successors like The Last Dinner Party and Paris Paloma.
- Arriving the week after Lily Allen's West End Girl, its blend of occult ritual, human sorrow and optimism positions Welch as a theatrically ambitious figure likely to influence women in rock.
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After Her Near-Fatal Miscarriage, Florence + the Machine’s New Album Is a Battle Cry for Women
In August 2023, Florence + the Machine frontwoman Florence Welch suffered a catastrophic miscarriage at age 37, shortly after deciding to try for a baby with her boyfriend. “The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death,” Welch, now 39, told The Guardian in September. “And I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming.” The experience led to the inception of Everybody Scream, an album…
Florence and the Machine’s season of the witch
In August 2023, Florence Welch was performing on stage when she suffered a miscarriage. The pregnancy was ectopic: her fallopian tube had ruptured and a Coke can’s worth of blood had accumulated in her abdomen. This life-altering event is the genesis that spurred Florence and the Machine’s sixth album, Everybody Scream. The title track ushers listeners into Welch’s church with its organs and choral singing, before a thumping drum and propulsive …
On »Everybody Scream«, the most grim album of her band so far, British musician Florence Welch handles physical and emotional traumas and a creepy near death experience. Also: news from Sevdaliza.
Florence + the Machine deliver a Halloween delight with a gloriously over-the-top and haunting album
There is something apt about releasing an album called Everybody Scream on Halloween. Indeed, Florence Welch deliberately chose to bring out her sixth album on the scariest day of the year – monsters, ghouls and hauntings charged her imagination when working on these songs.
In August 2023, Florence Welsh had to undergo an emergency medical procedure because of a pregnancy...
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