Florence + The Machine – Dance Fever – CD

‘Dance Fever’ was recorded predominately in London over the course of the pandemic in anticipation of the world’s reopening. It conjures up what Florence missed most in the midst of lockdown – clubs, dancing at festivals, being in the whirl of movement and togetherness – and the hope of reunions to come. It’s the album that brings back the very best of Florence – the festival headlining Boudicca, wielding anthems like a flaming sword. ‘Dance Fever’ is an album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realised self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculine and feminine, redemptive, celebratory, stepping fully into her place in the iconic pantheon.

1 King
2 Free
3 Choreomania
4 Back in Town
5 Girls Against God
6 Dream Girl Evil
7 Prayer Factory
8 Cassandra
9 Heaven Is Here
10 Daffodil
11 My Love
12 Restraint
13 The Bomb
14 Morning Elvis