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Sep 25, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Autumn de Wilde

Florence + The Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) is releasing a new album, Everybody Scream, on October 31 (aka Halloween) via Republic. Now she has shared its second single, “One of the Greats.” Listen below.

The album was made in collaboration with Mark Bowen of IDLES, Aaron Dessner of The National, and Mitski.

Welch had this to say about “One of the Greats” in a press release: “I don’t really know how to explain myself with this one, it was sort of a long poem about the cost of greatness. Who gets to decide what that is? Why do I even want it? Why am I never satisfied?

“I feel like I die a little bit every time I make a record, and kind of literally nearly died on the last tour. Yet I always dig myself up to try again, always trying to please that one person who doesn’t like it, or finally feel like I made something perfect and I can rest.

“Early in my career, I was consistently ridiculed and derided for the bigness of my expression. I was thrust into the spotlight but also told again and again I didn’t deserve it, or that because it wasn’t to their taste it wasn’t good. So maybe this is a 15-year outpouring of frustration. But also, a lot of the lines I just left in because I thought they were funny.

“Me and Bowen from IDLES wrote it in one take. He played the guitar and I just sang it straight from the page. We meant to re-record it but the first take just had this amazing energy.

“Then Aaron Dessner helped us take it to a truly transcendent place. I wanted it to feel like you were disintegrating into nothing at the end. Which is sometimes what the creative process feels to me. Death and resurrection over and over.”

Previously Welch shared the album’s first single, “Everybody Scream,” via a music video. It was one of our Songs of the Week.

Everybody Scream is the follow-up to 2022’s Dance Fever. During the tour for that album Welch needed lifesaving surgery and her recovery influenced the new album. A press release explains that her recovery “took her down the path of spiritual mysticism, witchcraft and folk horror as she felt the limits of her body and explored what it means to be ‘healed.’ The album treads through womanhood, partnership, aging and dying; exposing the murky in the mundane.”

In 2023 Florence + The Machine covered No Doubt’s 1995 hit “Just a Girl” for season 2 of Showtime’s acclaimed drama Yellowjackets (which is partially set in the 1990s).

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