Florence Welch on dancing to her new music, revisiting her 2011 album 'Ceremonials,' and getting sober while recording
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo by Timothy Hiatt/FilmMagic Florence Welch’s anxiety has been spiking, and the proof is right on her cell phone. Before our phone call, she got a notification that her screen time was up 16 percent over the past week. “I was like, What the fuck?!” she tells me, laughing. The reason for all the worrying? We’re speaking on the Monday before Dance Fever, her fifth album and first in four years with her band Florence + the Machine, is set to be released.
Dave Bayley is who I wrote “My Love” with. He is just all about the drop. Before he was in Glass Animals, he was a DJ, so he’s so committed to danceability. Even though the album was called Dance Fever, I didn’t have actual dance music in mind when I first started it. Then we met each other during one of the most intense lockdowns in England. I think we both were just so desperate for a sense of euphoric release in that way that sometimes the only thing that can deliver that is club music.
Hardest song to sing They’re all so hard because I’m an idiot! I don’t think about it in the studio, layering a thousand vocals and making a choir. One of the hardest songs to sing that we’ve actually been doing again is “Spectrum.” Most of the songs on Ceremonials are really hard to sing because that album is just full out from start to finish, but “Spectrum” is in a different register.
It’s probably “What the Water Gave Me.” I love that one, but I didn’t have the honesty or the self-awareness — or even the understanding of what I was going through at that time — to express it in any other way.
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