Florist
WE’RE NEW HERE
Gentle indie-folk quartet on a mission to soothe our modern anxieties
“EVERY day I wake, wait for the tragedy”. The lyric with which Emily Sprague has chosen to open Florist’s latest albumJellywishcould easily be read as melodramatic, were it not for her understated delivery: softly spoken and matterof-fact, an unfiltered early-morning thought over gently fingerpicked acoustic guitar. “The album starts that way because it’s important to call attention to the fact that we’re dysfunctional as humans on Earth,” says Sprague, Florist’s vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter. “We’re not really symbiotically living on this planet and with each other. We get stuck in these ways of believing what we think is true. But it doesn’t have to be so narrow.”