Florence + the Machine
Everybody Scream
Release Date: Oct 31, 2025
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
Record label: Republic Records
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Album Review: Everybody Scream by Florence + the Machine
Excellent, Based on 4 Critics
Based on rating 4.5
An urgent and vital testimony to survival and rebirth, Florence Welch’s sixth album is a defiant middle finger to doubters If you weren’t aware that Florence Welch has been through the mill a bit in recent years, then one listen to her sixth album will convince you. Two years ago, Welch had a miscarriage while performing on stage, and due to the pregnancy being ectopic, ended up suffering with massive internal bleeding. It was only emergency surgery that saved her life.
Based on rating 8/10
Three tracks in and you can already vision them on the dimly lit stage, with Florence Welch at the centre screaming all she's got left as a woman in insurmountable pain and an artist in wrought-up frustration. "Do I win a prize?" she gnarls in the chorus of poem-turned-rant "One of the Greats". The desire to prevail against misogynistic favouritism in the industry, to make music not as a crowd pleaser but as a hardwon result of catharsis, enlivens every minute on Everybody Scream.
Based on rating 7/10
The band return with their sixth album, Everybody Scream, a sweeping epic dedicated to the construction of self-mythology. Leaning on their signature elaborate, melodramatic sound, they mine the depths of anger and its many manifestations -- vengeance, indignation, regret, disdain. Some songs are occasionally weighed down by the intricate theatricality, but the record's complex feminist themes and cutting lyricism feel deeply apropos given the global regression in women's rights.
Opinion: Fantastic
Few records have as much claim to a title as dramatic as 'Everybody Scream' as Florence + The Machine's sixth full-length, a work born out of trauma both specific and general. In 2023, while touring last LP 'Dance Fever', Florence Welch - the project's eponymous creative force - miscarried an ectopic pregnancy and underwent life-saving surgery before returning to the stage just weeks later. It was, in some ways, a horror-laden manifestation of this album's overarching assertion: that you don't survive nearly two decades in a systemically sexist, famously fickle industry without sustaining some serious scars.
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