SLEEVENOTES: Everybody Scream - Florence + The Machine

Release Date: October 31, 2025

Label: Polydor / Republic

Elemental Mood: Air & Water; screaming wind meets cathartic tide

Season it sounds like: Deep autumn dusk, candlelit forest, the moment between Halloween and All Saints.

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OPENING MOMENT

Picture this: you’re in a field at twilight. The air is crisp. You hear distant wind through bare branches. Then a figure in red bottom heels digs into the earth… and screams into the hollow. That unsettling, electric moment is where this album begins.

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ALBUM FEEL

Everybody Scream is raw ritual. It’s not just a collection of songs.. it’s the sound of one woman and her band pulling a spell from trauma, mixing pain and power, surface and shadow.

Florence Welch channels a near death experience, witch fables, standing on stage with blood and light, and saying: I’m here, I’m screaming.

Musically, it leans into the dramatic: strings, haunting choirs, synths that shimmer like moonlight on water, and rock pulses that echo stomping through a haunted forest.

It’s part baroque pop, part dark folk horror, part cathartic scream therapy. The space between notes feels longer. The breath between lyrics deeper.

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TRACK NOTES

🎵 Everybody Scream (title track): A summoning call. Florence runs herself ragged, blood on the stage, still tethered to the crowd calling her name. The choir, the eerie trot beat, the possessed crowd in the video; it’s pure glam ritual.

🎵 Perfume and Milk: A softer, haunting moment about healing and returning to nature. It’s the lull between storms.

🎵 One of the Greats: A critique of ambition and inequality; wrestling with what it means for a woman to be “great.” Sharp, ironic, and painfully self aware.

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CLOSING REFLECTION

This is a record for standing in a half lit room, holding coffee that’s gone cold, letting the wind press through the windows. It’s the kind of album that asks: what happens when we scream what we’ve held silent?

It’s the tremor after the adrenaline, the hush after the roar.

records + reveries,

Cheexie

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