Florist Announces New Album Emily Alone, Shares First Single

Los Angeles-based songwriter Emily Sprague has released the first cut from Florist’s forthcoming album Emily Alone, a warm, pensive track titled “Shadow Bloom,” and its accompanying video.

“Shadow Bloom” is a meditative and dreamlike resignation to finding contentment in loneliness. “Do you even want to know the thing you spend your life trying to find? / Secrets from the last time you felt alright / Loneliness is only the last flower to be picked,” Sprague hums over patient, softly picked melodies.

“’Shadow Bloom’ is a meditation on the mundanity and stillness of life during our greatest moments of growth and transition,” Sprague says of the song’s meaning. “It’s an appreciation for what is and not a lingering on what was or what will be. The calm after great pain, peace in the unknown, welcoming the darkness to come in and warmly fill the empty spaces inside of you.”

The video (dir. Carley Solether) finds Sprague in soft, sun-stained scenes of blissful isolation—quietly cutting tangerines, making tea, and power-washing decks as particles of dust and dribbling drops of water twinkle in swaths of sunshine—and matches the wistful funk Sprague settles into in the single.

With the release of“Shadow Bloom” comes the announcement of the songwriter’s latest album, Emily Alone, a collection of songs made after uprooting her life in California and moving to New York, out July 26 via Double Double Whammy.