Album Review: Everybody Scream by Florence + the Machine

Three tracks in and you can already vision them on the dimly lit stage, with Florence Welch at the centre screaming all she's got left as a woman in insurmountable pain and an artist in wrought-up frustration. "Do I win a prize?" she gnarls in the chorus of poem-turned-rant "One of the Greats". The desire to prevail against misogynistic favouritism in the industry, to make music not as a crowd pleaser but as a hardwon result of catharsis, enlivens every minute on Everybody Scream.

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The band return with their sixth album, Everybody Scream, a sweeping epic dedicated to the construction of self-mythology. Leaning on their signature elaborate, melodramatic sound, they mine the depths of anger and its many manifestations -- vengeance, indignation, regret, disdain. Some songs are occasionally weighed down by the intricate theatricality, but the record's complex feminist themes and cutting lyricism feel deeply apropos given the global regression in women's rights.

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