Chelsea, U-Bahnbögen 29-30, 1080 Wien, Österreich
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Doors: 19.30h, Show: 20h
With Jellywish, the quartet’s fourth full-length work, out April 4th, 2024 on Double Double Whammy, the band invites listeners to question everything — to imagine a world where magic, surrealism, and the supernatural are our companions in day-to-day life. Jellywish dares to present a realm of possibility and imagination in a time that feels evermore prescriptive, limiting, and awful.
With the album, 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.
Singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter Emily Sprague says that the record 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.”
Though this concept may seem a bit impenetrable, Florist delivers its new songs with an ease and thoughtfulness that will be familiar to its fans. The goal isn’t to alienate the listener, or force them onto the band’s particular wavelength. With Jellywish, Florist places supernatural worlds and spirit energies alongside very human issues and questions in order to trigger the listener’s imagination. What it ultimately aims for is the kind of out-of-box thinking that prompts a diversity of changes and freedoms. In doing so, it also demonstrates that we are all connected.
With Jellywish, Florist offers a complex album in a time that is anything but simple. In mining the chaos and wonder of physical and spiritual worlds, the band holds a mirror to itself to the great benefit of all. It tells us that we are not alone, and challenges us to believe in magic.
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