Overview

• On August 11, Florence Welch shared a horror-style teaser video on Instagram showing her in a red dress digging a hole and screaming into it without any caption.
• Fans and media are widely interpreting the clip and preceding cryptic posts as a signal of new music from Florence + The Machine.
• Earlier Instagram content included a whiteboard of artistic goals, a studio photo with IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen and a notebook listing themes like witchcraft and folk horror alongside a slide marked October.
• Collaborators such as Glass Animals and producer Dave Bayley have responded coyly to Welch’s posts, praising her work but withholding specifics about any upcoming project.
• No official release details or dates have been announced, leaving the timing and nature of the possible new material unconfirmed.