Hannah North
Freelance Journalist for CLUNK and photographer. Based in London, but you can often find me in Bristol.
New York minimalist folk quartet Florist announce new album ‘Jellywish’ and drop new single ‘Have Heaven’
‘Have Heaven‘ is sprightly and fresh, like a spring morning when the sun is shining but the air is still nippy. Poppier than their previous work, the single feels gentle and pastoral while also surreal and unearthly.
Singer, guitarist, and lead songwriter Emily Sprague describes the track as establishing ”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.”
What sticks out is the chorus, repeating over and over again “I could have a heaven” before suggesting that you could have a heaven, that WE could have a heaven. Through my first few listens I couldn’t help but ask myself what the heaven in question is? A place? A state of being? A relationship?
The dreamlike nature of the strings and softness of the drum really melt together to help this line of questioning. You really feel as though you are floating on some other plane of existence through the track.
New album ‘Jellywish’ is out on 4th April via Double Double Whammy.
Watch/Listen to ‘Have Heaven’ here:
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