Florence + The Machine have officially announced a new album titled ‘Everybody Scream’. Check out the details below.
The band took to social media to confirm the upcoming release earlier today (August 19) – dropping a photo of the album cover and confirming both the title and release date. “Florence and the Machine, Everybody Scream, The new album, This Halloween,” the caption read.
On the cover, singer Florence Welch is seen through a fisheye lens, surrounded by wooden walls and sitting casually wearing a black and white outfit. New pre-order links have gone live on the band’s website too, revealing that the album will be shared on October 31 and will come in various formats.
Aside from the original tracklist – containing 12 songs – being available on cassette, CD and vinyl, there will also be ‘Chamber Versions’ of the latter two, which contain four bonus tracks and an alternate cover.
There will also be a “Bloodwood Edition” of the cassette, which features different album artwork, and various bundles on offer too. Visit here to browse the options and to pre-order the album.
Speculation about Welch and co. releasing their sixth studio album got momentum last month, when the singer shared a post which hinted that music was on the way.
One of the photos included a whiteboard that contained the message “You can have it all,” before listing off “Clarity, power, purpose, vocals, space, dynamics and beauty”.
It also made a cryptic nod to Adele, with “Swans vs Adele” written in capital letters underneath, and one of the photos included showed Welch writing music with IDLES‘ guitarist Mark Bowen, suggesting he will be involved in the LP. The latter has since gone on to drop numerous hints at a Florence collab on his social media pages, including various posts on Instagram Stories about the new music on the way.
Welch also hinted at the Halloween release in the post too, dropping mentions of “Witchcraft, folk horror, mysticism, magic, poetry [and] insanity,” as well as a photograph of Simon Critchley’s 2024 book, On Mysticism.
The new album will be the band’s first since the 2022 album ‘Dance Fever’. It will also come shortly after the band celebrated the 10th anniversary of their third album ‘How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’, earlier this year.
That record marked the follow-up to 2009’s breakthrough ‘Lungs’ and 2011’s sophomore release ‘Ceremonials’, and also became their first US chart-topper. Since then, they have released 2018’s ‘High As Hope’ too.
While a new album hasn’t arrived since 2022, last year did see the band celebrate 15 years of their debut album by playing a one-off orchestral show at London’s historic Royal Albert Hall. It was held as part of BBC Proms 2024, and was then captured on a live album called ‘Symphony Of Lungs’.
