"Everybody Scream" the first album in three years for Briton Florence + The Machine, a haunting and cathartic sixth album for the outfit, so far, the album has released four singles "Everybody Scream", "One Of The Greats", "Symphathy Magic" & "Buckle".
The story began on 3 July when singer Florence Welch commenced to shared a series of images that showed Welch working with Idles guitarist Mark Bowen, and included mentions of themes, such as "witchcraft, folk horror, mysticism, magic, poetry [and] insanity". More cryptic teasers, including a short video of herself in a red dress digging a hole in a field before screaming into it, arrive on August and then, the album was officially announced on 19 August 2025, with a release date of 31 October 2025. The cover art features a fisheye-lens shot of Welch lying on a bed in a wooden setting, wearing a black-and-white outfit.
The album, which follows on from 2022's Dance Fever, was created during and inspired by a time of healing and discovering the body's limits for Welch, who underwent life-saving surgery during 2023's Dance Fever Tour. Because of this, she feels Everybody Scream is her most personal Florence and the Machine album to date. She also mentioned the project's title coming from the idea of celebratory screaming and her exploration of why people would be screaming and the emotions and reasons associated with such a physical and emotional act
The album dedicated to finding strength in release from physical and psychological inhibitions with its traditiona arena-pop baroque, horizon-spanning anthems of resilience furnished with cinematic strings, gargantuan drums, and, yes, the occasional scream. While touring Dance Fever in 2023, Welch underwent life-saving surgery, which she's now revealed was due to massive internal bleeding caused by an ectopic pregnancy. The trauma of miscarriage is evident in the fury that fuels Everybody Scream: “Sometimes my body seems so alien to me,” Welch sings over the steady chug of "Kraken," sounding despairingly numb before transforming into a creature of wrath. On "The Old Religion," she dreams of immateriality, yearning to be free of her physical self so long as it means relief from pain.
Idles’ Mark Bowen and the National’s Aaron Dessner handle the bulk of the album’s production. Bowen’s influence suggests itself in a slightly more raucous approach, at least by Florence and the Machine standards. The opening title track springs from cascading harp to monstrous drones as it celebrates the safe haven of the concert hall, "Drink Deep," drives a drill into the earth’s core as Welch’s quivering melisma becomes an incantation, somewhat like the ominous commands of Michael Gira.
On several songs, Welch uses the hero’s journey as a framework; once you recognize it in her writing, you begin to hear it in the instrumental arrangements, too, but surprisingly the album’s most successful song is the six-and-half-minute-long "One of the Greats," which builds and builds and finally bursts, only dropping in a layered chorus and Tom Moth’s harp arrangement in its final act. As growling guitar and drums kick in, Welch purges, well, everything: creative insecurities; the itching dilemma that she’s built a career on hysteria at the cost of perpetuating her pain; her grievances with male entitlement—how do they keep getting away with making subpar records? Vivid and free-associative, it sounds like an argument she’s been having with herself for years, another highlight is "Sympapht Magic", its ambition and vulnerability come closest to fulfilling Everybody Scream’s mission to let it all out. Welch spends a sizable portion of the album ready to burn everything down, and she’s been here often enough to know that she can always rebuild, the soft "Buckle" it's a simple nice track a formidable one included in this rare but interesting record.
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