Florence and the Machine (stylised as Florence + the Machine) will be the final Friday Flash(back) for 2025! It has been a blast featuring some incredible artists and albums over two seasons this year.
The English indie rock band formed in London in 2007 by lead vocalist Florence Welch, keyboardist Isabella Summers, guitarist Rob Ackroyd, drummer Christopher Lloyd Hayden and harpist Tom Monger.
What a way to go out on Halloween, with a record titled, Everybody Scream. The album lands tomorrow. back in August, Welch began teasing a potential return through a series of cryptic posts on her social media accounts.
Their sixth studio album, features singles Everybody Scream & One of The Greats. Welch said that the song was originally written as a long poem and then recorded it one take, which she "sang straight from the page".
The band's debut studio album, Lungs, was released in July 2009, and held the number-two position for its first five weeks on the UK Albums Chart.
On 17 January 2010, the album reached the top position, after being on the chart for twenty-eight consecutive weeks.
As of October 2010, the album had been in the top forty in the United Kingdom for sixty-five consecutive weeks, making it one of the best-selling albums of 2009 and 2010. The group's second studio album, Ceremonials, released in October 2011, entered the charts at number one in the UK and number six in the US.
The band's third studio album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, was released on 2 June 2015. It topped the UK charts, and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, their first to do so. The album reached number one in a total of eight countries and the top ten of twenty. Also in 2015, the band was the headlining act at Glastonbury Festival, making Welch the first British female headliner of the 21st century.
The BBC played a part in their rise to prominence by promoting Florence and the Machine as part of BBC Music Introducing. At the 2009 Brit Awards, they received the Critics' Choice Award.
Lungs won the Brit Award for Best British Album in 2010, while Florence and the Machine have been nominated for six Grammy Awards including Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album.
So ahead of Everybody Scream (and Halloween) tomorrow, let's dive into some new and old tunes from one of my favourite Friday Flash(back)'s of 2025. It may be the last, however there is a new season coming in early 2026....
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