Florence + The Machine's Everybody Scream Tops Poll

Florence + The Machine’s sixth album, Everybody Scream, was released on Halloween 2025 and expands the band’s sound into witchy, gothic grandeur with cinematic strings, massive drums and occasional screams. The record is deeply informed by vocalist Florence Welch’s near‑death ectopic pregnancy — a ruptured fallopian tube that required emergency surgery after a performance — and channels that trauma into songs about mortality, bodily alienation and spiritual searching. Producers and collaborators include IDLES’ Mark Bowen and The National’s Aaron Dessner, with a guest turn from Mitski, and Welch embraced raw, imperfect takes to capture the album’s emotional immediacy. Lyrically it ranges from mythological folk‑horror to pointed critiques of sexism and the hunger for greatness, with tracks such as “One of the Greats,” “Kraken” and “The Old Religion” dramatizing pain, rage and a desire for immaterial relief. Fans responded strongly: Everybody Scream topped Billboard’s fan‑voted poll with 53% of the vote, and Welch says performing the new material live is a cathartic, almost inhuman release that helps her process the overwhelming feelings behind the record.