New Music: Everybody Scream

           

Florence + The Machine's drops their latest single, "Everybody Scream," just one day after the group confirmed its upcoming album of the same name out October 31. An interesting song in which front woman Florence Welch compares her life as a rock star to that of a cult leader in the chorus, singing, "Look at me run myself ragged / Blood on the stage / But how can I leave you when you screaming my name?" In the outro, Welch sings of witchcraft, spells, and injections before bemoaning, "The magic and the misery, madness and the mystery / Oh, what has it done to me?". The music video is just as unsettling. Directed by Autumn de Wilde, Welch follows a man riding backwards on a horse to a mansion seemingly overtaken by a cult. And yes, there is plenty of convulsing and eyes-rolling-back-into-heads to fuel the satanic-panic allegations.