New York alternative folk rockers Florist (made up of Emily Sprague, Jonnie Baker, Rick Spataro, and Felix Walworth) have announced their new record. Jellywish, the band's fifth album (counting Emily Alone, which was essentially a solo record by lead singer/songwriter Emily Sprague, as their third), will be out April 4 via Double Double Whammy.
The follow-up to 2022's Florist is preceded by first single "Have Heaven", with a video animated by Kohana Wilson. Watch/listen below:
On the new song, Sprague had this to say:
"We enter an observational fever dream about floating through liminal space between lifetimes, individual perceptions. There is reflection on our connectedness in joy and suffering through the wish for a peaceful place for our spirits to live and land. 'Have Heaven’ establishes the world of the album to be not quite always lucid, but rather a perspective that is blended into the worlds of the magic and death realms swirling around us. The chorus is a chant that pleads for a better symbiosis between these worlds, and between our earthly forms trying to survive alongside each other, bound to the systems we must exist within."
Jellywish is said to be an "exercise in multidimensional world building." It also includes previously-shared single "This Was a Gift". Sprague also says the album "[is] a gentle delivery of something that is really chaotic, confusing, and multifaceted. It has this technicolor that’s inspired by our world and also fantasy elements that we can use to escape our world."
Jellywish is released April 4. You can preorder it here. Full tracklist:
1. Levitate
2. Have Heaven
3. Jellyfish
4. Started To Glow
5. This Was A Gift
6. All The Same Light
7. Sparkle Song
8. Moon, Sea, Devil
9. Our Hearts In A Room
10. Gloom Designs
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