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Florence Welch sits in with Klein and Ally to talk about her upcoming album, 'Everybody Scream,' out everywhere on October 31.
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00:00Florence and the Machine on KROQ and now in KROQ it is Florence herself.
00:06Thank you for being here.
00:07Welcome back to KROQ.
00:08Good to see you.
00:09Hi, so nice to see you both.
00:11This is exciting.
00:12For so many reasons, Halloween is usually a day to give out little candy bars to your
00:16neighbors and toilet paper your enemies.
00:18But in this particular year, it's a Florence and the Machine Halloween with a brand new
00:22album.
00:24No, I am, I mean, I am just so excited that it all rhymes as well.
00:29I know that's very important to you.
00:31Burns in the Machine, everybody scream out on Halloween.
00:34Perfect.
00:35And you're getting anxious because now it's done, it's ready and you want the world to
00:38have it.
00:39But yet Halloween is such a perfect for the vibe of this album.
00:41We listened to it all.
00:42We were going to listen to one of the title tracks from the album in a moment on KROQ.
00:46And I believe we got the world premiered here a few weeks ago when you first released
00:49it.
00:50But why Halloween?
00:52Is that holiday symbolic to you?
00:54Well, I actually took so much sort of inspiration from folk horror and horror movies.
01:01And if the last album was kind of based on this dark fairy tale mythology, I'm like, this
01:06one's just a horror film.
01:07This one's just a horror film.
01:09But there's a lot of like, yeah, there's a, I also think it was an album that kind of
01:15wrestles with life and death and like darker themes.
01:18But, you know, there's a lot of nature in it as well.
01:21And I think it's a seasonal record as well.
01:25It was about, it feels very like autumnal to me.
01:29There's lots of little bits of nature threaded through it.
01:32So it just seemed like the absolute perfect moment to release it.
01:36You did a few deep dives, right, to get ready for this album.
01:39Witchcraft being one of them and horror films being another.
01:42Did you binge watch horror movies and which ones kind of spoke to you and influenced the
01:47album?
01:48I've been binge watching horror movies for a while.
01:51People might find this strange, but I actually watch them as like a way to soothe anxiety.
01:56Like I, when my mind is racing and I can't like, when I can't stop the horror movie of
02:02my own thoughts.
02:03Thoughts.
02:04Yeah.
02:05I get it.
02:06I put on a horror movie and it's kind of one of the only things that like will hold my
02:10attention.
02:11And also, for anyone out there who thinks they can't watch horror movies, you just
02:16have to start.
02:17And then.
02:18You'll find one that speaks to you.
02:20You just have to start.
02:21And then you actually become, once the kind of jumps, you kind of become a little less
02:28scared and you start to kind of appreciate them for their production value, for their
02:31lore, for their like mythologies.
02:33It Follows is one that I like love.
02:35Oh, I love It Follows.
02:36I love that.
02:37Especially, it's really interesting in terms of like the way that the sets and the costumes
02:43are created, it creates this own time period.
02:45Like some of the, the TV is from the nineties.
02:48The phone is, you know, the like Kindle is a clamshell.
02:52Like, you know, it's like, what time is this?
02:54Right.
02:55So there's incredible things that happen in horror in terms of like storylines and production.
03:00And if you can get past them just being scary, you can appreciate all that.
03:03Do you feel the same way though about true crime?
03:05Because I will watch forensic files in order to fall asleep.
03:09Klein thinks this is weird.
03:10Of course.
03:11He's a psycho.
03:12But I find that to be calming.
03:13But do you feel, is your dedication to the horror genre as a fictional medium or are you
03:18as into like all the Netflix true crime documentaries that we're all into?
03:22I'll watch it all.
03:23Okay.
03:24Yeah.
03:25Anything horrific.
03:26I've seen everything.
03:27Okay.
03:28I don't want to put Ali on the spot here, Florence.
03:30I know you studied witchcraft and you studied spells and everything to get you ready for this.
03:34Yeah, we did a lot of research actually.
03:36Ali makes moon water.
03:37You know, I don't know if you know, she brought in a fresh jug of moon water.
03:41I made this last night.
03:42Because it was a full moon.
03:43So she comes in here after these full moons and she says, everyone drink up.
03:46And we'll go, what the hell are you talking about, you weirdo?
03:48And she goes, no, this is moonbeam water.
03:51Have you done anything that weird?
03:53You've made some moon water, haven't you, Florence?
03:55That's so beautiful.
03:57How do you make moon water?
03:59You know, you just fill a cup with water and you put it outside.
04:02Yeah.
04:03See, how stupid is that?
04:04I mean, even her, she's like a studied witchcraft and she knows how dumb that is.
04:07It charges the water.
04:08That's the recipe.
04:09Okay.
04:10And then it has moon energy and you can put it in your plants and you can drink it.
04:14And there's a lot of things that you can do with it.
04:16Because she was, Ali was going to a real, like a witch, a healing witch, right?
04:21It was a goddess moon circle group.
04:23Yeah.
04:24And for every full moon and new moon, we would meet as women and we would set intentions for
04:29the new moon to come.
04:30We would let go of things that we wanted to let go of.
04:32And I mean, I'm sure that's something you're not unfamiliar with.
04:35No, I think there is like, I just started to become much more interested.
04:40There's just been like some like interesting things that have happened with my songwriting
04:45and how I feel like the songs are sort of three steps ahead of me.
04:48And sometimes they end up like, I don't know, something that happens a couple of years later
04:53and I'm like, oh, okay, that's what that song was trying to tell me or what that song,
04:56that's what that song knew back then.
04:58So, you know, I just guess I was looking to explore different forms of power and mysticism
05:05and magic.
05:06And I did actually also look back to the medieval period when like magic and was much more just
05:12like a part of everyday life.
05:13You know, you would just go and be like, hey, I've like, I've lost my favorite spoon.
05:17Can someone help me find it?
05:20You know, are you saying that you have written a song, heard it later, years later, and then
05:24it's made different sense to you years later?
05:26Almost like you wrote a song that made sense in the future.
05:29Well, it's almost like they, it like, I guess maybe potentially as a songwriter,
05:33you're tapping into some like creative subconscious or something that like has a knowing thing
05:39that in my daily life, I don't have access to.
05:41So it has sort of like, there has been these moments where I'm like, oh, okay.
05:45Like that.
05:46Right.
05:47That's what that was trying to say.
05:48That's so cool.
05:49But you didn't learn any spells.
05:51You didn't do voodoo or anything like that.
05:53No, I think she's also doing voodoo, right?
05:55I mean.
05:56Voodoo?
05:57No voodoo?
05:58I was in a library.
05:59Okay.
06:00That's a, that's a, that's very cool as well.
06:01No, but you've, you've done spells, didn't you used to try and do spells on some of your
06:05classmates?
06:06Well, okay.
06:07So if you grew up in the nineties, you watched the craft.
06:09Of course.
06:10The iconic.
06:11Light as a feather.
06:12Light as a feather.
06:13And I think it changed us all forever.
06:14So then I went to school.
06:15I was like, we are starting a coven.
06:17We are making spells.
06:19And then my mom wouldn't let me light candles in my room.
06:22So my spells didn't go.
06:24She's like, no.
06:25They didn't get very far.
06:26You are not setting the house on fire.
06:27I was like, don't you understand?
06:28I need to access this power.
06:30That's so funny.
06:32I need to get to the void.
06:33She's like, no.
06:34Tea light, tea lights in the bedroom.
06:37You're going to burn the house down.
06:39That's a valuable lesson to learn, right?
06:40That's just a spell on you, Mom.
06:42I want to listen to Everybody Scream now on K-Rock
06:44because this is the song that inspired, I guess,
06:46the name of the album, but more importantly,
06:48for so many reasons.
06:50And I know you went to a scream coach
06:51and we'll talk about that
06:52because everyone in the show has screamed
06:53for different reasons
06:54and we're going to let you decide
06:55which one of us is the best screamer in a moment.
06:56But this song is the title track from the album,
06:59which will be out on Halloween.
07:01Florence and the Machine is here.
07:03This is Everybody Scream.
07:04What do you want to tell people about it
07:05as we play the song for the first time?
07:07As you play the song, Everybody Scream?
07:10Yeah.
07:11Because I'm like, oh, wait, the title?
07:12Or the album?
07:13You know, the title track.
07:15So this was, I think, maybe the second song
07:20I wrote for this record
07:22and actually Mitski is a co-writer on it,
07:25which was so amazing.
07:26Wow.
07:27Yeah, it was so amazing to be able to write with her.
07:30I'm such a huge fan of her songwriting.
07:33This is Everybody Scream.
07:35Soak it in.
07:36And Florence has requested you listen to this outside.
07:38The album sounds better outside.
07:40So if you're driving now,
07:41windows down at the very least.
07:43Everybody Scream.
07:44Part song, part therapy.
07:46On K-Rock with Florence and the Machine.
07:48Climb.
07:49Alley.
07:50Show.
07:51Mornings on K-Rock.
07:52106.7 K-R-O-Q.
07:55Florence and the Machine, Everybody Scream.
07:57That is the title track off of the new album,
07:59which will be out on Halloween.
08:01So you can give it to your neighbors.
08:02They ring your doorbell.
08:03They want candy.
08:04You say no.
08:05You're getting the new Florence and the Machine album.
08:07Happy Halloween.
08:08And for the song, true or false,
08:10you personally met with a scream coach.
08:13You've gone to a scream coach.
08:14Okay.
08:15No.
08:16I actually, so, we made a,
08:20the first thing I ever wanted to put out for this record,
08:25before any music, before anything, I was like,
08:28which was interesting because I said this to like,
08:30my label and my manager.
08:32I was like, you know, the first thing I really want to put out
08:34is just me screaming into a hole in the ground.
08:36They were like, okay.
08:37Okay.
08:38Yeah.
08:39Yeah, we can make that happen.
08:41We can make that happen.
08:43And I, you know, I've been working with an amazing director
08:46and creative director, Autumn DeWild, for a while.
08:50And I was like, hey, can we dig a hole in the ground and scream into it?
08:53She was like, yeah, we can do that.
08:55We can make that happen.
08:56So, but basically, to scream, to get a really visceral horror scream sound,
09:04you have to be trained.
09:06And I'm trained in opera, but I'm not trained in horror screams.
09:09But, Autumn DeWild, her daughter, is Arrow DeWild of the Van Starcrawler.
09:16And she has this incredible scream.
09:21So, she's like, okay, let's get Arrow to do it.
09:24And it was the most incredible sound.
09:26So, yeah, it's kind of like a scream featuring Arrow DeWild of Starcrawler.
09:32Oh, interesting.
09:33Yeah, because she's like had practice and training to be able to just scream like that
09:37because she does it in her shows and it's unbelievable.
09:39In honor of the album and in honor of the single
09:42and the fact that you are a scream expert now,
09:44we have collected some of the screams that have taken place on this show
09:47and we would love to get your opinion as to who has the best scream.
09:51This was when Ally was wearing a shock collar
09:53and trying food during a high-voltage food review.
09:55Don't judge us too much, Florence.
09:56Don't judge us.
09:57The things that we do on the show.
09:58I was wearing a shock collar.
09:59This was the sound she made.
10:01Okay, now that was scream number one.
10:13That was Ally.
10:14So, you can decide that at the end.
10:15I'm going to play these all for you.
10:16This was Jake.
10:17Again, I'm not trained.
10:18This was Jake whose dog you met earlier.
10:20It was good for him.
10:21Good scream though.
10:22It was visceral.
10:23Jake, you met Jake's dog earlier, Kibbe.
10:25And this was Jake being waxed as we were...
10:28This is the scream he let out.
10:29His leg.
10:30Owie!
10:32Owie, stop laughing!
10:34Owie!
10:35Okay, that's scream number two.
10:36Now, this is all of us getting ready for everybody's scream.
10:38It's the screamiest month of the year.
10:40This was a scream number three for you to pick from.
10:43And this was when I got my nipple pierced.
10:45We raised a lot of money for charity and as a result,
10:47I pierced my nipple and this was the sound I made.
10:49Owie!
10:50Owie!
10:51Owie!
10:52Owie!
10:53Owie!
10:54Owie!
10:55Owie!
10:56Owie!
10:57Owie!
10:58Owie!
10:59That hurts a lot.
11:00Okay, that was scream number three.
11:02You've heard three different, very different screams.
11:05Do any of those stand out to you or do you need to hear even more screams?
11:09Would you like to hear any scream again?
11:11You may do that.
11:12This was Allie falling off her bicycle.
11:14Now, this is another odd Florence.
11:15This isn't even a scream.
11:16It kind of is.
11:17Listen.
11:18Here we are.
11:19First bike ride.
11:21Say hi.
11:22Hi.
11:23You're not being serious.
11:24Yeah, I am.
11:27That was me falling off my bike while I was filming myself on my bike.
11:31That was a different scenario.
11:33I'll give you one final one.
11:35How are there more?
11:36We spent a lot of time on the show screaming, unfortunately.
11:39Oh, no.
11:40This was Klein snoring.
11:41This doesn't count.
11:43That was me sleeping.
11:44That's different.
11:45Of the screams.
11:46She's all warm.
11:47That's incredible.
11:48I know.
11:49That's a condition.
11:50Of the screams you just heard in honor of the album, you know how to scream better than
11:55anyone now.
11:56Everybody scream.
11:57The album out October 31st on Halloween.
11:59Who is the best scream you just heard?
12:02They're all so different.
12:04I know.
12:05Different occasions.
12:06Different energy to all of them.
12:07Different emotions.
12:08Can I hear the first one again?
12:11This was Ali being shocked while trying food.
12:13That's the one.
12:17That's the one.
12:18That's the one.
12:19That's the one.
12:20That's the one.
12:21Right?
12:22Yeah.
12:23What an honor to receive that.
12:24That's the one.
12:25Florence, you know, we can't say.
12:26It's not too late to add it to the album.
12:27We can't.
12:28No, it is too late.
12:29Honestly.
12:30We can't say it perfectly.
12:31It would.
12:32It would because in Everybody's Scream we have lots of different screams.
12:34I know.
12:35Like we put the sounds of like there's foxes in there.
12:38There's like we had a choir scream.
12:40There's me doing like crazy opera screams which is like.
12:43Whoa.
12:44Whoa.
12:45So we could just put that in there.
12:46Great.
12:47Layer it in.
12:48Alright.
12:49Well listen.
12:50The album.
12:51Forget it.
12:52It's no longer coming out on Halloween.
12:53We've got to add Ali's voice to it now.
12:54So we're going to delay the whole thing.
12:55No, no, no.
12:56It can still come out.
12:57Digital.
12:58It's fine.
12:59As you know, please check this out.
13:02I'm sure we've got more details coming up for ways people can hopefully see Florence soon.
13:07We cannot say anything about that yet, but maybe soon enough.
13:10And anytime you are in L.A., you are always welcome here to come hang out with us at KROQ.
13:15Thank you so much for having us.
13:16Thank you so much.
13:17Thank you Florence.
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