Florence + the Machine new album "DANCE FEVER"

[Pennywise 36,079]

9 hours ago, Suspiria said:

Given the corny snoozefest they made, they might as well have never met

What do you mean "they made"? Sis they never did anything together 

[alsemanche 93,932]

The pre-orders are up: https://store.florenceandthemachine.net/*/Music/

But everything is UK Only  

[alsemanche 93,932]

Florence releases her 5th studio album Dance Fever via Polydor Records.

 

Dance Fever was recorded predominately 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. It’s the album that brings back the very best of Florence – the festival headlining Boudicca, wielding anthems like a flaming sword.

 

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 in New York in March 2020 to begin recording the record with Jack Antonoff 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.

Once back in London, ‘My Love’ was one particular track that shapeshifted from one entity to another with the help of Dave Bayley from Glass Animals. Welch had written the song in her kitchen as a “sad little poem”, and when she recorded it acoustically it just didn’t seem to work. Bayley suggested using synths and it soon expanded with floor-filling, chest-thumping energy.

With Dave’s love of synths and Florence’s fascination with all things gothic and creepy a kind of “Nick Cave at the club” sound started to emerge to shape the record. 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 to Midsommar.

 

Dance Fever is an album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realised self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculine and feminine, redemptive, celebratory, stepping fully into her place in the iconic pantheon.

[stevana229 1,880]

if this isn't an organic-real-instrumental DANCE POP album, I don't want it... 

[alsemanche 93,932]

5 bonus tracks confirmed 

 

[LaFama 4,658]

21 minutes ago, alsemanche said:

5 bonus tracks confirmed 

 

I just pre-ordered the boxset this morning, seems I did the right thing . With 19 tracks it's gonna be longer than HAH and HBHBHB. I swear May can't come soon enough. 

[alsemanche 93,932]

20 minutes ago, LaFama said:

I just pre-ordered the boxset this morning, seems I did the right thing . With 19 tracks it's gonna be longer than HAH and HBHBHB. I swear May can't come soon enough. 

I ordered now too expecting 1-2 tracks but thsi is next level 

[Mr Oak 7,706]

3 hours ago, alsemanche said:

5 bonus tracks confirmed 

 

And a new single

 

[Cruelty 6,172]

Some insider tea! (I found this on another forum, it's not my tea, don't come for me if it turns out to be wrong but it sounds legit )

- King and Heaven Is Here are more representative of the album sound than My Love, which is rather a one off song.
- 2 more songs shorter than "Heaven Is Here"
- The rest between around 3:40 and 4:40 minutes
- There are spoken parts throughout multiple songs like on Heaven Is Here tying the album together
- There is a lot of chaos and rage
- Choreomania is an indirect title track as it describes her being possessed by dance fever

[Babel 41,495]

Love this talented witch  we missed her

[Mr Oak 7,706]

18 minutes ago, NeonSkeleton said:

2 more songs shorter than "Heaven Is Here"

[Sneaky Oliver 22,221]

1 hour ago, NeonSkeleton said:

Choreomania is an indirect title track as it describes her being possessed by dance fever

I wish Choreomania was the album title instead of Dance Fever. It stands out as more authentic and original  

[alsemanche 93,932]

1 hour ago, NeonSkeleton said:

- 2 more songs shorter than "Heaven Is Here"

We stan interludes

1 hour ago, NeonSkeleton said:

- There is a lot of chaos and rage

[huttont 5,346]

Reading the description made me even more excited for the album if that was even possible. This heretic can’t wait for our Supreme’s new album