Florence + The Machine‘s newest album, Everybody Scream, is set to drop on October 31. With a delightful three-fold rhyme (“Machine” and “scream” and “Halloween”), alongside mysterious visuals, Florence Welch has presented fans with a healing and cathartic yet chilling idea of the band’s next installment.
There’s a release of energy and emotion coming from the screaming motifs that weave their way through the album. Since teasing the project in August, Welch has shared more details and inspirations that influenced the work. Welch—and her longtime band members Isabella Summers, Rob Ackroyd, and Tom Monger—collaborated with Mitski, IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen, and The National’s Aaron Dessner.
Of the album’s influences, the most striking might be the emergency lifesaving surgery that Floren