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I asked Ted to share which artists he is most excited about in the coming year and he shared the label’s amazing array of returning and new talent. “We are looking forward to great new music from Florence + The Machine [...].
 
Florence and the Machine expected to release new album in 2018
Further corroborating that a new Florence and the Machine album is on the way, a biography page for composer/producer Sally Herbert — who previously contributed to How Big — notes that she’s completed the string arrangements on the UK outfit’s forthcoming album.

ORCHESTRAL, VOCAL AND STRING ARRANGEMENTS

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Florence + The Machine


String Arrangements on forthcoming Album (Virgin)
 
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE CONFIRM NEW LP DANCE FEVER OUT MAY 13

“MY LOVE” DEBUTS TODAY WITH VIDEO

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Press photo, album cover. Credit: Autumn de Wilde


March 10, 2022Dance Fever, the fifth album from Florence + the Machine, is set for release May 13. Single “My Love” debuts today alongside a video by acclaimed director Autumn de Wilde. Listen here, watch here and pre-order/pre-save the album here.

Dance Fever was recorded in London over the course of the pandemic in anticipation of the world’s reopening. It conjures up what Florence missed most in the midst of lockdown—clubs, dancing at festivals, being in the whirl of movement and togetherness—and the hope of reunions to come.

Just before the pandemic Florence had become fascinated by choreomania, a Renaissance phenomenon in which groups of people—sometimes thousands—danced wildly to the point of exhaustion, collapse and death. The imagery resonated with Florence, who had been touring nonstop for more than a decade, and in lockdown felt oddly prescient.

The image and concept of dance, and choreomania, remained central as Florence wove her own experiences of dance—a discipline she turned to in the early days of sobriety—with the folkloric elements of a moral panic from the Middle Ages. In recent times of torpor and confinement, dance offered propulsion, energy and a way of looking at music more choreographically.

Starting, as ever, armed with a notebook of poems and ideas, Florence had just arrived to New York in March 2020 to begin recording when Covid-19 forced a retreat to London. Holed up at home, the songs began to transform, with nods to dance, folk, ‘70s Iggy Pop, longing-for-the-road folk tracks a la Lucinda Williams or Emmylou Harris and more, ultimately arriving somewhere that Florence describes as “Nick Cave at the club.” Lyrically, she took inspiration from the tragic heroines of pre-Raphaelite art, the gothic fiction of Carmen Maria Machado and Julia Armfield, the visceral wave of folk horror film from The Wicker Man and The Witch toMidsommar.

Dance Fever is an album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realized self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculinity and femininity, redemption and celebration.

“My Love” follows the recently released “King” and “Heaven is Here,” both of which arrived alongside videos by de Wilde choreographed by Ryan Heffington. Dance Fever was produced by Florence, Jack Antonoff and Dave Bayley of Glass Animals.
 

Hier bin ich, Liebelein. Danke für die Nachfrage. Ich pendle schon seit letztem Jahr – mal privat, mal beruflich – zwischen Deutschland und Italien hin und her (Tuntenroman auf Anfrage) und bin seitdem nur noch sporadisch-lakonisch zwecks Musikaustausch und Kaufberatung per PN aktiv. Nebenbei absolviere ich ein HOFA Audio Engineering Diploma mit Option auf ein daran anknüpfendes 12-monatiges Bachelorstudium in Tontechnik & Musikproduktion an einer Partnerhochschule, halte mir aber noch offen, ob und wann ich diese ziehen werde. Meine verbleibende Zeit gehört meiner Frau, Familie und Freunden, meinen Musikinstrumenten und dem (Motor-)Sport. Musikforen und -blogging müssen da leider vorerst hintenanstehen.

Baciotto

PS: Florence und ihre Band spielen am 10. Juni auf dem Tempelhof Sounds – ihr einziger Deutschland-Termin in diesem Jahr. Vielleicht möchte hier ja jemand hingehen. Ich selbst werde bis Ende Juni leider kaum Zeit für Konzerte und Festivals finden. (Ausnahme: Dua Lipa morgen Abend im Ziggo Dome Amsterdam)
 
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