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Jan 14, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by V Haddad

New York-based quartet Florist have announced a new album, Jellywish, and released its lead single, “Have Heaven,” with an accompanying music video. Jellywish is due out April 4 via Double Double Whammy. Check out the single and album details below.

Jellywish follows the band’s self-titled album from 2022 and 2019’s Emily Alone, which was essentially a solo album from singer/guitarist/principle songwriter Emily Sprague. Florist is Sprague, Jonnie Baker, Rick Spataro, and Felix Walworth.

In a press release Sprague says the album is purposely complicated. “It’s a gentle delivery of something that is really chaotic, confusing, and multifaceted,” she explains. “It has this Technicolor that’s inspired by our world and also fantasy elements that we can use to escape our world.”

Or as the press release puts it: “On Jellywish, Florist explores life’s big questions without offering silver linings, morals, or definitive answers. Instead, the band asks perhaps the most difficult of questions: Is it possible to break free from our ingrained thought cycles and pedestrian way of life? That, Florist posits, may be the only way to be truly happy, fulfilled, and free.”

Of the new single, Sprague says: “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.”

Animator Kohana Wilson made the song’s video.

Jellywish Tracklist:

1. Levitate
2. Have Heaven
3. Jellyfish
4. Started to Glow
5. This Was a Gift
6. All The Same Light
7. Sparkle Song
8. Moon, Sea, Devil
9. Our Hearts in a Room
10. Gloom Designs

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