Florence +The Machine announce new album as new single premieres

Florence And The Machine will release their brand new album How Big , How Blue , How Beautiful on June 1st.
The release date will fuel further rumours of a Glastonbury headline slot at Worthy Farm on the last weekend of June.

Florence Welch was on Radio 1 with Zane Lowe earlier this evening to premiere her brand new single What Kind Of Man.
The lead single from this summers album , is a spectacular return to form, with its alt-R&B influence and swaggering guirar riff. It would sound amazing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.

Welch spoke to Lowe about the new album saying -

"I guess although I've always dealt in fantasy and metaphor when I came to writing, that meant the songs this time were dealing much more in reality," she said in a statement. "Ceremonials was so fixated on death and water, and the idea of escape or transcendence through death, but the new album became about trying to learn how live, and how to love in the world rather than trying to escape from it. Which is frightening because I’m not hiding behind anything but it felt like something I had to do."

 

The full track listing for How Big , How Blue , How Beautiful out June 1st is

 

'Ship To Wreck'
'What Kind Of Man'
'How Big How Blue How Beautiful'
'Queen Of Peace'
'Various Storms & Saints'
'Delilah'
'Long & Lost'
'Caught'
'Third Eye'
'St Jude'
'Mother'

Watch the video for  Florence And The Machine's fantastic new single What Kind Of Man below