{"product_id":"florence-the-machine-dance-fever-2","title":"Florence \u0026 The Machine - Dance Fever","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlorence releases her 5th studio album\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDance Fever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003evia Polydor Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDance Fever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas recorded predominately 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. It’s the album that brings back the very best of Florence – the festival headlining Boudicca, wielding anthems like a flaming sword.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJust before the pandemic Florence had become fascinated by choreomania, a Renaissance phenomenon in which groups of people - sometimes thousands - danced wildly to the point of exhaustion, collapse and death. The imagery resonated with Florence, who had been touring nonstop for more than a decade, and in lockdown felt oddly prescient.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image and concept of dance, and choreomania, remained central as Florence wove her own experiences of dance - a discipline she turned to in the early days of sobriety - with the folkloric elements of a moral panic from the Middle Ages. In recent times of torpor and confinement, dance offered propulsion, energy and a way of looking at music more choreographically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStarting, as ever, armed with a notebook of poems and ideas, Florence had just arrived in New York in March 2020 to begin recording the record with Jack Antonoff when Covid-19 forced a retreat to London. Holed up at home, the songs began to transform, with nods to dance, folk, ‘70s Iggy Pop, longing-for-the-road folk tracks a la Lucinda Williams or Emmylou Harris and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce back in London, ‘My Love’ was one particular track that shapeshifted from one entity to another with the help of Dave Bayley from Glass Animals. Welch had written the song in her kitchen as a “sad little poem”, and when she recorded it acoustically it just didn’t seem to work. Bayley suggested using synths and it soon expanded with floor-filling, chest-thumping energy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith Dave’s love of synths and Florence’s fascination with all things gothic and creepy a kind of “Nick Cave at the club” sound started to emerge to shape the record. Lyrically, she took inspiration from the tragic heroines of pre-Raphaelite art, the gothic fiction of Carmen Maria Machado and Julia Armfield, the visceral wave of folk horror film from The Wicker Man and The Witch to Midsommar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDance Fever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realised self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculine and feminine, redemptive, celebratory, stepping fully into her place in the iconic pantheon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Universal","offers":[{"title":"Picture Disc","offer_id":45433840763034,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black","offer_id":45610926735514,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Limited Edition Alternate Artwork","offer_id":45694675779738,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0632\/8415\/0426\/files\/Untitleddesign-2025-04-25T143319.485.png?v=1745588332","url":"https:\/\/www.soundrecords.im\/products\/florence-the-machine-dance-fever-2","provider":"Sound Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}