Everybody “Scream”: Florence + The Machine Ready New LP

(photo: Autumn De Wilde).

As tipped here last week, Florence + the Machine will return with a new album, Everybody Scream, appropriately due for release by Republic on Halloween (Oct. 31). The project’s title track is out now in tandem with a video directed by Autumn De Wilde.

The Florence Welch-led group previously teased a clip of the video in which the vocalist, clad in a red dress, digs a hole in a windy, desolate soundscape and screams upon seeing what’s inside. Everybody Scream was written and produced with assistance from IDLES’ Mark Bowen (who also cameos in the video), the National’s Aaron Dessner and Mitski. Bowen previously teamed with Welch to co-produce a cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl” fo the second season of the grunge era-set Showtime series Yellowjackets.

Per a statement, the follow-up to 2022’s Dance Fever “treads through womanhood, partnership, aging and dying [and] exposing the murky in the mundane.”

Florence + the Machine have been off the road for almost a year following the September 2024 performance of their 2009 debut, Lungs, with orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Welch was onstage in June at the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival for a surprise performance with the Maccabees.