The newest album from Florence + The Machine is right here, All people Scream, arriving to thrill followers of singer-songwriter Florence Welch simply in time for the Halloween weekend. Born of the non-public trials endured and overcome by Welch in recent times, it’s fittingly her most private and grandiose effort to this point, boasting a stacked solid of producer collaborators.
All people Screams is a story of catharsis and survival, written within the wake of the well being emergencies and private tragedies skilled by Welch whereas touring round her final 2022 album, Dance Fever, which noticed her hospitalized and her life threatened. It’s Welch’s rawest confession to this point, seeing her exercising her private demons whereas dissecting the merciless grip of fame.
Welch channels her private trials and tragedies on All people Scream, and alongside the spectacular collective of rotating musicians she assembles for recording and stay performances, she additionally tapped a number of high-profile collaborators to help her in writing in manufacturing, together with members from The Nationwide, Idles, Glass Animals, and extra.
The Ever-Evolving Lineup Of Florence + The Machine—An Explainer
Florence + The Machine isn’t a band within the conventional sense; as an alternative, it’s the artistic automobile of English singer-songwriter Florence Welch, who writes all of the lyrics and melodies, and has conjured the spectacular conceptual framework of her music since she shocked the world along with her breakthrough album, Lungs, in 2009 (that includes “Canine Days Are Over” and “You’ve Bought The Love”).
Welch is the only fixed member and public face of Florence + The Machine, and he or she works with a continually evolving collective of musicians (somewhat than a set band). Notably, this contains Isabella “Machine” Summers, a keyboardist and early collaborator, who serves because the longest-standing member of The “Machine” (in addition to an occasional co-writer).
For stay performances, Welch typically works with a core stay band of 6 to eight musicians who rehearse underneath her path (together with drums, percussion, bass, guitar, keys, harp, and backing vocals). This lineup typically contains Summers, harpist Tom Monger, and multi-instrumentalist Rob Ackroyd. The band’s fluid nature permits Welch to scale from intimate acoustic units to gorgeous orchestral performances with out a compromise in imaginative and prescient.
Welch’s songwriting course of is instinctive and infrequently deliberately chaotic, drawn from channeling feelings somewhat than a premeditated course of. Welch begins with voice memos, which could kind the skeletal core of the tune, earlier than she enters the studio along with her session gamers, together with a small circle of trusted producers (together with oft collaborators Paul Epworth and Markus Dravs).
Inspecting Florence’s Ensemble Of Collaborators On All people Scream
The recording of All people Scream spanned two years, from roughly 2023 to earlier this yr, and was drawn from Welch’s bodily restoration following the emergency surgical procedure that halted her tour. This era of illness and therapeutic impressed an evocative tapestry of themes that stretches from witchcraft to mysticism, from private mortality to the trials that always accompany fame.
Key recordings happened on the New York studio of The Nationwide’s founding member, Aaron Dessner, who supplied a artistic haven for Welch. Through the lead-up to the album’s launch, she described the method as an “exorcism” in an interview with The Guardian.
“I needed to scream it out—actually. After the surgical procedure, I couldn’t transfer, however the rage and grief needed to go someplace. So I recorded myself howling at the hours of darkness, then constructed the songs round these sounds. It’s not remedy—it’s expulsion.”
Welch served as author on all songs on All people Scream, and co-produced the majority of the album alongside Dessner, with extra manufacturing courtesy of longtime collaborator James Ford (who has served since Welch’s debut Lungs), and IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen, who additionally helped write the title monitor, “All people Scream,” bringing a sure uncooked power to the tune.
Acclaimed Japanese-American singer-songwriter Mitski AKA Mitski Miyawaki co-wrote a number of tracks with Welch, together with the title monitor and “Kraken,” and gives visitor vocals on the latter. One other high-profile visitor was Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley, who assisted with writing and manufacturing on one other of the album’s standout tracks, “Witch Dance.”
