Florence Welch knows the power of the voice all too well. She possesses a singular belt that adds an aching dimension to her rousing, elliptical pop; she headlines festivals and arenas for crowds that shout along with her lyrics in adulation. “I can come here and scream as loud as I want,” she wails on the jaggedly anthemic opening title track of her mononymic project Florence + the Machine’s Everybody Scream ; she’s specifically referring to the transformative nature of live performance in that lyric, but her sixth album goes on to explore the physical and emotional changes one can experience when letting your voice lead the way in letting go.

Welch began working on Everybody Scream after experiencing an ectopic pregnancy, a complication where a fertilized egg implants outside of th

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