Since her debut album Lungs (2009), Florence Welch has established herself as something of a one-woman hurricane. Oscillating between pop and alt-rock, Florence and the Machine are not a band to shy away from life’s most painful experiences, nor are they unfamiliar with the idea of clinging to hope in the face of destruction. Her gale-force voice pairs with lyrics about obsessive love, death, witchcraft and harnessing the power of nature, leaving emotional devastation in her wake.
It’s been 10 years since the band first played at the Hydro, Glasgow’s largest music venue, during a tour for their third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. Tonight, they return with the formidable Everybody Scream, an album that navigates the aftermath of Welch’s miscarriage caused by an ectopic pregnancy in 2023, along with a near-death experience caused by complications from that episode. She leans into mysticism more than ever before as a means of confronting and coping, as well as wrangling with the fame that both tempts and taunts her.
