Jellywish

The New York-based band Florist make music that captures both the naive sweetness of indie folk and the cosmic abstraction of ambient and New Age. Fuller than *Emily Alone* and more cohesive than the documentarylike *Florist*, 2025’s *Jellywish* feels, in some ways, like the album they have been approaching for years: simple, porchy songs glittering with unexpected bits of processed sound. The childlike voice of Emily Sprague delivers thoughts on death (“Started to Glow”), redemption (“Have Heaven”), and other less-than-childlike things. This is music that feels modest and ordinary but is always reaching quietly into the unknown. The tension between their folksy side and their cosmic one turns out to resolve easily: In both cases, they are looking for the beauty they know is right in front of them.

Embracing a playful, almost hallucinogenic sound, the indie-folk band suffuses its fifth album with wide-eyed awe at everyday miracles.

With Jellywish, Florist largely readopts the guitar-and-vocal MO of earlier work as she continues to explore some of her favourite themes.

Jellywish by Florist album review by Michael Mannix for Northern Transmissions. The group's LP drops on April 4th via Double Double Whammy