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Florist seek to meld worlds on the hymnal “Have Heaven”, announce new album

Florist will release a new album called Jellywish on 4 April through Double Double Whammy, following up their exceptional 2022 self-titled album. Vocalist Emily Sprague says of the new album:

It’s a gentle delivery of something that is really chaotic, confusing, and multifaceted. It has this technicolor that’s inspired by our world and also fantasy elements that we can use to escape our world.”

October’s single “This Was A Gift” features on Jellywish and Florist have also shared a new single called “Have Heaven”, with Sprague saying:

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.”

Florist’s brand of lightly psychedelic, nimble indie-folk is the perfect vessel in which to engender a feeling of floating between worlds and dimensions. On “Have Heaven”, a combination of softly echoing percussion and spindly guitars opens up a liminal space where Sprague’s voice wanders in an unusual body through a dream-like town, observing the beauty and discomfort of life all around. Through the particle field comes a song singing: “I could have a Heaven … you could have a Heaven … we could have a Heaven”. It seems to suggest that, while time on Earth is brief, there is much to live for and learn before we become just another wave of light in this impossible complex universe.

Watch the video for “Have Heaven” below or find the song on streamers.


Florist’s new album Jellywish is out on 4 April through Double Double Whammy (pre-order/save). You can find Florist on Bandcamp, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.