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Florence + The Machine

Florence Welch is one of the defining figures in alternative pop of the 2000s and 2010s — an artist whose voice, visual language and instinctive sense of drama have made Florence + The Machine a singular force of its era. Her songs inhabit a space where pop can be grand yet precise, and where personal mythology takes the shape of music that becomes instantly recognisable.

Across five albums, Welch has carved out a fully realised world. Baroque sensitivity, indie-rock urgency and poetic storytelling form a continuum that has taken the band to the main stages of major festivals and solidified Welch as one of contemporary music’s most unmistakable voices.

Released in October 2025, Everybody Scream marked a new chapter for Florence + The Machine. The album grew from two years of work with three influential contemporary collaborators: Mark Bowen of Idles, producer and composer Aaron Dessner of The National, and American pop artist Mitski. Their perspectives fed into a record that dives into symbolism, bodily memory, fear and recovery — themes that have long shaped Welch’s writing, but here approached with a sharper physicality and stripped-back intensity.

The album also carries the imprint of a sudden medical emergency that forced Welch off the Dance Fever tour. The experience introduced a deeper tension into the music. Mortality and healing aren’t presented as abstract motifs but as lived realities that inform the album’s emotional charge.

Florence + The Machine has never been about volume or spectacle alone. The project occupies a space where pop, poetry and the alternative tradition overlap in a way that feels wholly its own. Welch has shaped a vision of emotionally expansive, symbol-rich pop that remains precise, articulate and unmistakably hers.