Florist
Jellywish
Release Date: Apr 4, 2025
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Folk
Record label: Double Double Whammy
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Album Review: Jellywish by Florist
Great, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
Her last album, 2022's self-titled release, offered a blend of engaging songs and intriguing instrumental forays, varying from solo performances to full-band renderings. With her latest project, Jellywish, she largely readopts the guitar-and-vocal MO of earlier work, particularly 2019's Emily Alone. That said, she strikes a more equanimous bearing, even as she continues to explore some of her favorite themes: relational issues, struggles with self-esteem, and concerns about her place in the world.
Based on rating 7/10
Birth, school, work, death as the story goes. Or on Florist's follow-up to their sublime self-titled album from 2022, it's life, light, and a winter's chill--followed by death. These themes recur over 10 lighter than air folk-tinged tracks. Florist-in-chief Emily Sprague has herself all tangled up worrying about whether it's okay to float through life unthinking, uncaring as the alluded to jellyfish of the the album's title.
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