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“Twirling, vaulting and leaping,” is how editorial director Jessica Bailey described the Florence and the Machine performance at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn on October 9, 2018 for the release of album High As Hope earlier that year. The eccentric singer had embarked on a global tour which wrapped in North America before travelling to Australia where I too laid witness to the magical spectacle in Sydney.
Aside from a collaboration on a single for Disney’s Cruella soundtrack, we have heard very little from the artist until now. Overnight Welch shared a surprise teaser on social media for a new track expectedly dubbed “King”. The post was captioned, “Something’s coming.”
15 cards make up the band’s website homepage with the king, facing up. Elsewhere, selects fans were sent letters which were marked with “Chapter 1”.
Chapter 1
KingComing soon…
(Via Lillie Eiger) pic.twitter.com/UDJkQgLvz5
— The Florence + the Machine Fan Club (@FATMFanClub) February 20, 2022
Florence and the Machine later shared a snippet from an upcoming music video which is expected to release tomorrow (TOMORROW!). It will be their latest work since the release of “Light Of Love” in 2020 and “Call Me Cruella” in 2021.
On Twitter fans were sent into hysterics by the news. One user wrote, “I’m screaming crying and throwing up from excitement.” Another added, “The internet can be wonderful sometimes because a single tweet has made my week.”
Florence and the Machine released Harder Than Hell earlier this month, a compilation album of older and beloved songs from the band. They will return to performing this summer in Europe and are set to headline a number of festivals including Norway’s Øya, Finland’s Flow and Madrid’s Mad Cool.
It was also recently announced that Welch would score an upcoming Broadway musical adaption of The Great Gatsby. “This book has haunted me for a large part of my life. It contains some of my favourite lines in literature,” Welch said in a statement.
“Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism. It is an honour to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song.”
More to come.
