Singer/songwriter Emily A. Sprague, Rick Spataro, and Jonnie Baker comprise the indie folk trio Florist. Today, Sprague has announced a new solo album under the Florist moniker. It’s fittingly called Emily Alone and it comes out July 26 via Double Double Whammy. Check out the LP’s lead single “Shadow Bloom,” and its accompanying music video, below.
Emily Alone is the follow-up to Florist’s 2017 LP If Blue Could Be Happiness. That year, Sprague moved to Los Angeles while her bandmates stayed back in New York. She wrote and recorded Emily Alone at her California home toward the end of 2018.
“‘Shadow Bloom’ is a meditation on the mundanity and stillness of life during our greatest moments of growth and transition,” Sprague of the single in a statement. “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.”