Florist are back with a new song. “This Was a Gift” follows the New York quartet’s self-titled 2022 album. Listen to the track below. Florist have also announced a handful of October and November concerts. See the group’s tour dates below, too.
In a press release, Florist singer Emily Sprague said, “‘This Was a Gift’ is a love song about enduring difficult seasons of life with the people that we keep close.” She continued, “It is a musical push and pull that mirrors and describes the process of becoming vulnerable to heartbreak and loss that leads to the acceptance of eventual endings and appreciation of community. The band developed and grew with this song over the course of two years of live touring before committing it to recording, further deepening the roots of its meaning.”
Revisit the 2019 interview “Florist’s Emily Sprague Is on a Never-Ending Search for Life’s Biggest Mysteries.”
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Florist:
10-09 Melbourne, Australia – The Curtin
10-11 Chippendale, Australia – Phoenix Central Park
10-12 Fortitude Valley, Australia – Season Three
10-13 Fortitude Valley, Australia – Season Three
11-10 Queens, NY – Cassette
11-11 Queens, NY – Cassette ^
11-12 Queens, NY – Cassette &
11-13 Queens, NY – Cassette #
11-15 Winooski, VT – The Monkey House
11-16 Portland, ME – SPACE Gallery %
11-17 Brattleboro, VT – The Stone Church
11-18 Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom *
11-19 Providence, RI – Lost Bag *
11-21 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar *
11-22 Pittsburgh, PA – Bottlerocket Social Hall
11-23 Lakewood, OH – Mahall’s *
11-24 Buffalo, NY – 9th Ward at Babeville *
^ with h. pruz
& with Alena Spanger
# with Bobbie
% with Mariee Siou
* with Allegra Krieger