FLORIST RELEASE “UNDERSTANDING LIGHT” IF BLUE COULD BE HAPPINESS, OUT 9/29 VIA DOUBLE DOUBLE WHAMMY TOURING WITH PINEGROVE AND LOMELDA
LISTEN TO “UNDERSTANDING LIGHT“
Today, Florist have shared “Understanding Light,” the most recent single from their upcoming album, If Blue Could Be Happiness. Stereogum, who premiered the track today are saying the album contains “plaintive and warm, solitudinous dispatches with a remarkable sense of atmosphere… Sprague takes light and space and makes them feel tactile.” If Blue Could Be Happiness is available for pre-order now and due out 9/29 via Double Double Whammy.
Florist’s new album If Blue Could Be Happiness, is both a goodbye to a past life and a declaration of great love to a new one. A long mourning song for the death of a mother, and a quiet celebration of the endless struggle that is being alive. It was recorded by the band in an Upstate New York schoolhouse very near to where songwriter Emily Sprague spent her childhood and where the band originated.
Florist are going on tour this fall with Pinegrove and Lomelda. All dates below.
LISTEN TO PREVIOUS SINGLES
“WHAT I WANTED TO HOLD” & “GLOWING BRIGHTLY“
PRAISE FOR FLORIST:
“Unassuming, deeply personal… invites us to appreciate the mundane, to look out at the world and be awed by the majesty and fragility of it all.” – Pitchfork
“Sweet confessional tone paintings.” – NPR
“Aching, blunt, quiet… frail but determined.” – New York Times
“Heartbreakingly visceral poetry” – The FADER
ABOUT FLORIST:
Florist is the friendship project of Emily Sprague, Rick Spataro, and Jonnie Baker. Born in the New York Catskill Mountains in 2012, the three began playing and recording together after discovering their shared love for many things musical and for each other.
If Blue Could Be Happiness is the second full length album from soft-synthesizer-folk band Florist. It is an observation of change; a full color memory album. It is both a goodbye to a past life and a declaration of great love to a new one. A long mourning song for the death of a mother, and a quiet celebration of the endless struggle that is being alive. Recorded by the band during May of 2017 in an Upstate New York schoolhouse very near to where songwriter Emily Sprague spent her childhood and where the band originated. The final track of the record, “Red Bird”, was written and recorded by Emily on the day before her mother died unexpectedly in March of 2017. The song remains in demo form on the album just as she had heard it.
TOUR DATES:
9/20 – Burlington, VT @ ArtsRiot *
9/21 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB *
9/22 – Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground *
9/24 – Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop *
9/26 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck *
9/27 – Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street (OKC) *
9/28 – Houston, TX @ Walter’s Downtown *
9/29 – Austin, TX @ Barracuda *
9/30 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada *
10/2 – El Paso, TX @ The Perch at Tricky Falls *
10/3 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress *
10/5 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echoplex *
10/6 – San Diego, CA @ The Irenic *
10/7 – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room *
10/8 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour *
10/10 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst (Atrium) *
10/11 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s *
10/12 – Reno, NV @ The Holland Project *
10/14 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater *
10/16 – Iowa City, IA @ Gabe’s *
10/17 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Total Drag Records *
10/18 – Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium *
10/19 – Minneapolis, MN@ 7th St Entry *
10/20 – Milwaukee, WI@ The Back Room at Colectivo *
10/21 – Madison, WI @ The Rathskeller
10/22 – Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
10/24 – Washington, DC @ DC9
10/25 – Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
10/26 – Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East (Upstairs)
10/27 – Brooklyn, NY @ The Park Church Co-Op
* w/ Pinegrove and Lomelda
FLORIST IF BLUE COULD BE HAPPINESS DOUBLE DOUBLE WHAMMY SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
- Blue Mountain Road
- What I Wanted To Hold
- The Fear Of Losing This
- Understanding Light
- Eyes In The Sun
- Glowing Brightly
- Thank You Light
- If Blue Could Be Happiness
- Instrumental 3
- Red Bird
