The band’s last album, Dance Fever, dropped in 2022
On Monday morning, Florence Welch posted a video of herself digging a hole and yelling in it… First of all, relatable. Second of all, does this mean new music?
Welch posted a cryptic video of herself in a red dress in heels digging a hole in the ground with a dagger, before taking deep breaths and yelling into it three times as if she were escaping a killer in a horror film. Aside from comments like “Girl, same,” many Florence + the Machine fans speculated that the post may be teasing the arrival of new music from the group.
If new music is truly on the way, it’ll be the first release from the group since 2022’s Dance Fever, which marked Florence and the Machine‘s fifth LP. That project was postponed by two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The album featured songs such as “King,” “My Love,” and Free,” and earned a “Complete Edition” the following year. The band toured that record in 2022 and 2023 for their last run of the era.
Back in May, Florence shared a video of herself singing “Girls Against God” as she reflected on three years of Dance Fever. “‘And it’s good to be alive crying into cereal at midnight’ Dance Fever was released 3 years ago today,” she wrote on Instagram. “A pandemic fever dream record. About plagues past and current.”
Since “Dance Fever,” Florence and the Machine released “Mermaids” in 2023, shared the live version of Symphony of Lungs for BBC Proms, and a remix of “Say My Name” with Morgan Seatree.
