——— FLORIST (US)
FR/
Après un premier passage remarqué au Botanique en 2023, où Emily A. Sprague présentait Florist sous la forme d’un quatuor, le groupe new-yorkais revient avec Jellywish, un quatrième album sorti en avril 2025. Leur précédent opus, acclamé par Pitchfork (8.5/10) et salué par Les Oreilles Curieuses comme « une œuvre d’exception où Emily Sprague exorcise ses pensées les plus sombres et morbides en musique cathartique et sensible », marquait déjà un sommet dans leur discographie.
Avec Jellywish, Florist poursuit dans cette veine introspective et sensible, tout en élargissant son univers. Le groupe signe ici une œuvre douce et vertigineuse, mêlant indie folk, psychédélisme feutré et arrangements oniriques. Construit comme un monde parallèle, l’album explore les grandes questions existentielles — la vie, la mort, le réel, la liberté — sans jamais céder au didactisme, préférant ouvrir des espaces de doute, de magie et d’imagination.
Dans la lignée de ses précédents projets, le quatuor cultive un art de la délicatesse et de la contemplation, où la simplicité mélodique cache une véritable profondeur philosophique.
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With Jellywish, the quartet’s fourth full-length work released in April of 2025, 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.
On 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.
Jellywish is an exercise in multidimensional world building. The album’s panoramic cover art, which looks like something out of a Henry Darger volume, wraps the music in a collage of color that presents as science fiction-adjacent, hinting at something mysterious, fantastical, and mythological. Inside the album’s jacket, however, are tender and catchy sonic meditations on life’s most knotty subjects: life, death, earth, reality, relationships, joy, and pain. Taken together, Florist offers an acute sense of the band at this moment, one that worries about the world and its place in it. In contrast, it also presents an alternative to the doldrums of day-to-day life, and the necessary suggestion that very different things may be true at the same time.
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.
——— INFOS
• Tickets on sale 05/06 - 17:00
• Rotonde (Botanique) | Doors 19:30
• Bota'Carte 16.5€ (
https://bit.ly/Bota_Carte)
• Ticket 19.5€
• At the door 22.5€
(costs included)
——— TICKETS
FR:
https://botanique.be/fr/concert/florist-2025
NL:
https://botanique.be/nl/concert/florist-2025
EN:
https://botanique.be/en/concert/florist-2025
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