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Limited Edition Grey 2LP – Cat:3893662 Barcode:602438936625
Limited Edition Black 2LP – Cat:3893647 Barcode:602438936472
Limited Edition ‘Deluxe’ Hardback Book CD – Cat:4545415 Barcode:602445454150
Standard CD – Cat:4545414 Barcode:602445454143

Record Label: Polydor

Format: Album

Genre: Indie & Alternative, Pop

Release Date: 13/05/2022

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Description

Florence + the Machine shares details of her 5th studio album Dance Fever set for release on May 13th via Polydor Records. The announcement comes with her new single ‘My Love’ which debuts alongside a video by acclaimed director Autumn de Wilde.

Dance Fever was recorded predominately in London over the course of the pandemic in anticipation of the world’s reopening. It conjures up what Florence missed most in the midst of lockdown -clubs, dancing at festivals, being in the whirl of movement and togetherness -and the hope of reunions to come. It’s the album that brings back the very best of Florence – the festival headlining Boudicca, wielding anthems like a flaming sword.

Just before the pandemic Florence had become fascinated by choreomania, a Renaissance phenomenon in which groups of people – sometimes thousands – danced wildly to the point of exhaustion, collapse and death. The imagery resonated with Florence, who had been touring nonstop for more than a decade, and in lockdown felt oddly prescient.

The image and concept of dance, and choreomania, remained central as Florence wove her own experiences of dance – a discipline she turned to in the early days of sobriety – with the folkloric elements of a moral panic from the Middle Ages. In recent times of torpor and confinement, dance offered propulsion, energy and a way of looking at music more choreographically.

Starting, as ever, armed with a notebook of poems and ideas, Florence had just arrived in New York in March 2020 to begin recording the record with Jack Antonoff when Covid-19 forced a retreat to London. Holed up at home, the songs began to transform, with nods to dance, folk, ‘70s Iggy Pop, longing-for-the-road folk tracks a la Lucinda Williams or Emmylou Harris and more.

Once back in London, ‘My Love’ was one particular track that shapeshifted from one entity to another with the help of Dave Bayley from Glass Animals. Welch had written the song in her kitchen as a “sad little poem”, and when she recorded it acoustically it just didn’t seem to work. Bayley suggested using synths and it soon expanded with floor-filling, chest-thumping energy.

With Dave’s love of synths and Florence’s fascination with all things gothic and creepy a kind of “Nick Cave at the club” sound started to emerge to shape the record. Lyrically, she took inspiration from the tragic heroines of pre-Raphaelite art, the gothic fiction of Carmen Maria Machado and Julia Armfield, the visceral wave of folk horror film from The Wicker Man and The Witch to Midsommar.

Dance Fever is an album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realised self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculine and feminine, redemptive, celebratory, stepping fully into her place in the iconic pantheon.

‘My Love’ follows the recently released ‘King’ and ‘Heaven is Here’, both of which launched with videos by Autumn de Wilde and choreographed by Ryan Heffington.

Dance Fever was produced by Florence Welch, Jack Antonoff and Dave Bayley.

Track Listing

Vinyl

Side I:

  1. King
  2. Free
  3. Choreomania
  4. Back In Town

Side II:

  1. Girls Against God
  2. Dream Girl Evil
  3. Prayer Factory
  4. Cassandra
  5. Heaven Is Here

Side III:

  1. Daffodil
  2. My Love
  3. Restraint
  4. The Bomb
  5. Morning Elvis

Deluxe CD

  1. King
  2. Free
  3. Choreomania
  4. Back In Town
  5. Girls Against God
  6. Dream Girl Evil
  7. Prayer Factory
  8. Cassandra
  9. Heaven Is Here
  10. Daffodil
  11. My Love
  12. Restraint
  13. The Bomb
  14. Morning Elvis
  15. Track 15
  16. Track 16
  17. Track 17
  18. Track 18
  19. Track 19

Standard CD

  1. King
  2. Free
  3. Choreomania
  4. Back In Town
  5. Girls Against God
  6. Dream Girl Evil
  7. Prayer Factory
  8. Cassandra
  9. Heaven Is Here
  10. Daffodil
  11. My Love
  12. Restraint
  13. The Bomb
  14. Morning Elvis
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