After nearly dying on her last tour, Florence Welch has clawed her way back with Everybody Scream, an album that feels like both a séance and a celebration. The sixth studio album from Florence + The Machine is a fevered hymn to the agony and ecstasy of creation, where art, pain, and transcendence collide in glorious, gothic fashion.

The title track, released earlier this fall with a cinematic video by Autumn de Wilde, set the tone. It’s a band in full command of the storm; epic, spiritual, unflinchingly vulnerable. One of the record’s singles, “One Of The Greats,” is Welch at her most honest, a confession wrapped in cathedral-sized emotion. “I don’t really know how to explain myself with this one,” Welch says. “It was sort of a long poem about the cost of greatness. Who gets to decide what that is? Why do I even want it? Why am I never satisfied?” Written in a single take with Mark Bowen of IDLES, the song was later elevated by Aaron Dessner, who helped sculpt its grandiose sense of collapse. “We meant to re-record it,” Welch recalls, “but the first take just had this amazing energy. I wanted it to feel like you were disintegrating into nothing at the end, which is sometimes what the creative process feels like. Death and resurrection over and over.”

That push and pull, between destruction and rebirth, animates Everybody Scream. It’s an album born from crisis: Florence’s near-fatal surgery during her Dance Fever tour sent her spiraling into questions of mortality, purpose, and the limits of her own body. What emerged is a work steeped in mysticism, witchcraft, and folk horror. Across her career, from Lungs to Ceremonials to Dance Fever, Welch has made a religion out of self-exorcism. Everybody Scream continues that sacred ritual, but with a deeper sense of reckoning. Written with Bowen, Dessner, and Mitski, the album turns suffering into communion, transforming the very act of survival into song. “I feel like I die a little bit every time I make a record,” Welch admits. “But I always dig myself up to try again.”