Song appears on Dance Fever
Florence + the Machine have unveiled a new single, “Free,” with a video starring acclaimed actor Bill Nighy as Florence’s anxiety and directed by Autumn de Wilde. The track is the latest from the group’s forthcoming fifth LP Dance Fever due May 13th via Republic Records.
Florence has shared three songs from Dance Fever thus far—“My Love” (plus remixes from co-producer Dave Bayley of Glass Animals and Meduza), “King” and “Heaven is Here” — all of which arrived alongside videos by the acclaimed director de Wilde featuring choreography by Ryan Heffington.
Dance Fever was recorded in London over the course of the pandemic in anticipation of the world’s reopening. It conjures up what Florence missed most in the midst of lockdown — clubs, dancing at festivals, being in the whirl of movement and togetherness — and the hope of reunions to come.
Tickets for Florence + the Machine’s 2022 North American headline dates this year are on sale now. The tour kicks off September 2nd in Montreal with further stops at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl and many more. Arlo Parks, Sam Fender, King Princess, Yves Tumor, Japanese Breakfast and Wet Leg will join as support on select dates. One dollar from every ticket sold will benefit Choose Love to aid refugees worldwide.
Additionally, they will play two very special, intimate shows this spring with the first on April 29th in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Theatre and May 6th at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York. Both shows sold out in seconds.
Dance Fever is an album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realized self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculinity and femininity, redemption and celebration.
Dance Fever was produced by Florence, Jack Antonoff and Dave Bayley of Glass Animals.
