“Our goals didn’t go to waste, they’re holding on…”
Florrie is actually enjoying the lengthy sport.
The singer-songwriter-drummer-producer-TikToker extraordinaire first supplied drums on the Almighty Aloud‘s BRIT Award-winning “The Promise” over 16 years (!) in the past. And now, she’ll be opening for them on their reunion tour throughout all 5 nights on the O2 this June. (And sure, I’ll be there.)
It’s a full circle second, and a Xenomania fanatic’s dream – and solely the beginning of fine information to return from the multi-talented musician this week.
On Friday (March 22), Florrie launched the lead single and accompanying music video from what shall be her long-awaited debut album The Misplaced Ones, due out on June 14 by way of BMG and Xenomania Information.
The album comes 14 years after the discharge of her debut single “Name 911” (the actual ones will all the time realize it because the theme track of the misplaced Gigi Attractive net collection The Avenue!) and her Introduction EP, which is truthfully inspiring. Like, perhaps Rihanna actually will launch R9 at some point. Crazier issues have occurred!
“I’ve been ready to make my debut album for the final 12 years and it deserved on a regular basis and love I’ve put into it,” she defined in a launch.
Forward of the album’s launch, she neatly tied up the unfastened ends of the previous 4 or 5 years with the Private bundle on the finish of 2023, a set of lots of the songs she’s launched through the years, together with “Borderline,” featured on Gray’s Anatomy in 2019.
And now, it’s time to get misplaced as soon as once more. (However there’s a transparent roadmap for what’s arising forward this time, concern not.)
“The Misplaced Ones” is a track “about letting go; of previous regrets, errors you made if you didn’t know any higher, and preserving maintain of hope when life will get exhausting. There was a time after I virtually gave up on music, and I went by way of a tough couple of years. I wrote this track whereas rediscovering myself as an artist and a human being,” she explains.
The anthemic track, co-produced alongside fixed collaborator and Xenomania pop Brian Higgins, is a propulsive pop burst of hope towards the chances that’s solely too applicable for the discharge: “We’re the misplaced ones (yeah), it’s a jungle (yeah) / Our thorns are buried deep, however we see magnificence in our goals,” she declares on the immediately catchy refrain.
The accompanying music video additionally offers a glimpse into Florrie’s journey so far, together with residence movies of her enjoying drums and performing in her early years, main to the current proper exterior Xenomania’s cottage doorways, the place groups of writers labored on hits for our favourite acts like Women Aloud, Sugababes, Rachel Stevens, The Saturdays and the Pet Store Boys.
“I filmed this video within the hills behind the outdated Xenomania studio, the place I began my profession as an artist, and it felt very poignant being again there. I additionally wished to incorporate some outdated movies to indicate the place all of it started…and as a reminder to by no means surrender,” she says.
As for the remainder of the LP, you may anticipate finding just a few reworked favorites from the previous (“I Took a Little One thing” and my all-time favourite “Get You Again,” we really received!), in addition to model new cuts from Florrie and Brian Higgins, in addition to collaborations with Takura Tendayi, who co-wrote Rihanna‘s “Wait Your Flip.”
With tour dates for each the Aloud and G Flip lined up between Could and June and extra from The Misplaced Ones nonetheless to return, Florrie’s by no means been busier. She’s really a testomony to the truth that there isn’t any time restrict on following your goals, whatever the setbacks which have offered challenges up to now – particularly if you’ve obtained the expertise to craft persistently wonderful pop music for years. (Please forgive her for being Late. She was simply busy experimenting with rugs.)
This debut is lengthy overdue and nicely deserved. Congratulations in your formal arrival, Florrie!
Take a look at the tour dates inside, and click on right here to pre-order The Misplaced Ones on vinyl.
The Misplaced Ones Tracklist:
1. The Misplaced Ones
2. By no means Removed from Paradise
3. Kissing In The Chilly
4. Private
5. Honeymoons Over
6. Wanting For Love
7. If It’s Been A Arduous Night time
8. Unhealthy Film
9. Love Hearts
10. I Took A Little One thing (2024 model)
11. Get You Again
12. Jealous
Florrie Tour Dates:
* = w/ G Flip
# = w/ Women Aloud
05/16 NEW ORLEANS. LA TIPITINA’S UPTOWN *
05/18 ST. PETERSBURG. FL JANNUS LIVE *
05/20 ORLANDO, FL THE SOCIAL *
05/22 ATLANTA, GA TERMINAL WEST *
05/24 NASHVILLE, IN BASEMENT EAST *
05/25 INDIANAPOLIS, IN HI-FLANNEX *
05/26 MILWAUKEE, WI VIVARIUM *
05/27 MINNEAPOLIS, MN FINE LINE *
05/30 MONTREAL, QC TE STUDIO TD *
05/31 TORONTO, ON VEIVET UNDERGROUND *
06/01 NEW HAVEN, CT SPACE BALLROOM *
06/04 BOSTON, MA BIG NIGHT LIVE *
06/05 WASHINGTON D.C 9:30 CLUB *
06/06 WASHINGTON DC 9:30 CLUB *
06/22 LONDON, ENG THE O2 #
06/23 LONDON, ENG THE O2 #
06/25 LONDON, ENG THE O2 #
06/26 LONDON, ENG THE O2 #
06/27 LONDON, ENG THE O2 #
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