123: Florist - Have Heaven
There's something quite apt about brand new music from Florist arriving today, on the greyest, wettest day I've found outside my window of 2025 so far. Thus far, Florist's music has almost unanimously belonged to the Spring and Summer, warm gentle days where the songs drift and hang like the soft, subtle breeze they meet in the surrounding atmosphere.
On brand new album Jellywish, announced today and due for release on April 4th via Double Double Whammy, Emily Sprague and co. are delving into deeper worlds. The music here still feels tender, it's hard to imagine how it could be anything but with Sprague's voice and delivery, but as they foreword says: Jellwish dares to present a realm of possibility and imagination in a time that feels evermore prescriptive, limiting, and awful. “It’s a gentle delivery of something that is really chaotic, confusing, and multifaceted,” Emily herself adds. “It has this technicolor that’s inspired by our world and also fantasy elements that we can use to escape our world.”
'Have Heaven', the first track to be shared from the forthcoming LP, does indeed hint at something more tangled and knotty, even if that shift shows itself here in a more playful intonation. Wilting at the edges, sneaking a sagging feeling of melancholy in through the brighter parts, it feels immediate, and immediately compelling; a calling-card to an absorbing new chapter. Does it feel like everything is melting here? Are we giving up now?
“We enter an observational fever dream about floating through liminal space between lifetimes, individual perceptions. There is reflection on our connectedness in joy and suffering through the wish for a peaceful place for our spirits to live and land. Have Heaven establishes the world of the album to be not quite always lucid, but rather a perspective that is blended into the worlds of the magic and death realms swirling around us. The chorus is a chant that pleads for a better symbiosis between these worlds, and between our earthly forms trying to survive alongside each other, bound to the systems we must exist within.”
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