“The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death,” Florence Welch told The Guardian last month. She was referencing a miscarriage that she experienced in August 2023, flush in the middle of a European tour with Florence + the Machine ; an ectopic pregnancy forced Welch into emergency surgery, which saved her life. “I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming.” This formed the basis of Everybody Scream , Florence + the Machine’s latest effort.

For six albums and 15 years now, Welch has built her artistry on a kind of ritual self-destruction: the barefoot sprinting across stages, the operatic wailing, the physical and emotional exorcism that defines a Florence + the Machine performance. She broke her foot at Coachella i

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