Emily Sprague has released two really good ambient albums since Florist’s 2017 album If Blue Could Be Happiness and ended up with one of her songs in Beyoncé’s Homecoming concert movie.
Sprague today announces a new Florist album called Emily Alone, and it’s a sparse collection of songs she wrote alone at her new-ish home base in Los Angeles late last year, true to her title. His lead single, “Shadow Bloom,” is soft and thoughtful; the deft picking of Sprague wraps itself around small but meaningful revelations about meeting with simplicity the complexities of life.
“I could have the reasons why / but nothing would do right,” she sings. “Would you even like to know what you’re trying to find in your life?” During our greatest moments of growth and transition, Sprague says that the song “is a meditation on the worldliness and stillness of life. It is an appreciation of what is and not a lingering on what has been or is going to be.
The calm after great pain, peace in the unknown, the darkness to come in and warmly fill the empty spaces within you.” Listen to it next to a video directed by Carley Solether, below.
TRACKLIST:
01 “As Alone”
02 “Moon Begins”
03 “Celebration”
04 “I Also Have Eyes”
05 “Ocean Arms”
06 “Time Is A Dark Feeling’
07 “M”
08 “Now”
09 “Rain Song”
10 “Still”
11 “Shadow Bloom”
12 “Today I’ll Have You Around”
TOUR DATES:
07/26 Los Angeles, CA @ Pico-Union Project
07/27 San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord
07/29 Portland, OR @ Lola’s Room (Crystal Ballroom)
07/30 Seattle, WA @ Fremont Abbey Arts Center
08/3 Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
08/5 Cambridge, MA @ The Great Scott
08/6 Burlington, VT @ Arts Riot
08/8 Troy, NY @ The Church
08/10 Ft. Wayne, IN @ B-Side (One Lucky Guitar)
08/11 Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s
08/12 Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
08/13 Allentown, PA @ Soft Machine Gallery
08/14 Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA
08/15 Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
08/16 Richmond, VA @ Gallery 5
08/17 Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
08/19 Atlanta, GA @ 529
Emily Alone is out 7/26 via Double Double Whammy. Pre-order it here.