“Everybody Scream”

Florence + The Machine

Sabina Mejía

Florence + The Machine has always lived between the mystical and the theatrical, yet with this new album release of Everybody Scream on Halloween 2025, the band is entering a new era that is defined by its vulnerability, rage, and act of rebirth. After years of physical and emotional recovery after her life or death emergency surgery, Florence Welch returns with this album that feels like a regeneration, both dramatic and intimate. This record is dark, breathless, witchy and very human, mixing orchestral intensity with lyrics that undergo femininity and the worth of being seen. 

Created over the last two years, crafted alongside producers like Aaron Dessner and James Ford, the album mixes gothic pop with some true storytelling. They embrace contradictions like softness and brutality, glamor and exhaustion, and the sacred and the chaotic. All through the album, the audience sees that the result is a cinematic, overwhelming, and deeply personal experience. 

One of the Greats

In “One of the Greats” Florence Welch is directed towards the pressure of legacy, perfection and a male dominated field that has standards of musical greatness. The imagery she presents is violent and self aware, with lines that echo self doubt and her desire for immortality. She questions whether greatness is worth the loneliness it brings with it. The song starts with fragile confessions, building its way up into triumph, creating a mirror effect between craving to be recognized and looking for peace in her own person. 

Everybody Scream

Welch's creative energy on “Everybody Scream” makes the audience feel like they are being haunted by a resurgence. After many years of turning heartbreaks and disaster into poetry, this song has a rhythm and layers in the chorus that makes it sound like a ritual, one in which pain turns into power. She alters the screaming in the song, and turns it into something holy, commemorating vulnerability as a strength instead of a weakness.

Sympathy Magic

“Sympathy Magic” turns the albums dark scenes and introduces a message of empathy and strength in which Florence channels the power of being able to connect emotionally with one's self, turning compassion into some sort of enchantment, something magical. The track's shimmering production and soft hearted vocals makes the people listening understand others, themselves and how that can be the truest kind of magic. 

Witch Dance

Ending strong, there is “Witch Dance” which brings the record to its euphoric and blissful peak. Incorporating different instruments and innovative lyrics, it celebrates womanhood, rebellion, and a true free spirit. The song feels in some way like a wakecall to recover identity and feel the true joy of the moment, closing the album declaring that Florence herself is her true monster, powerful, feared, but most especially, free and liberated. 

The album Everybody Scream shows Florence + The Machine at their most fearless state. The album mixes confessions, spectacles and rituals, all works that encapsulate darkness, not to shock, but to change. Through witchcraft, humor and other emotions, they are able to confront what it means to survive in a contradicting and unexpected world that both cherishes and eats out its creators. 

This album is about returning to life, even when the process is far from easy. It is about regaining the voice and the power that were once taken away. In Everybody Scream, Florence Welch has a powerful and loud rise.