Flor Release Eagerly Anticipated New Album 'Future Shine'

Hood River, OR alt-pop band flor have released their eagerly anticipated new album Future Shine via Fueled By Ramen. The album is available to stream and download beginning today HERE. CDs, cassettes, and limited edition merch bundles are available now exclusively through flor's online store HERE.

To celebrate the record's arrival, the quartet have also shared an official music video for their new single "Gotta Do Something." Watch the Caleb Mallery-directed visual on the band's YouTube channel below.

The track's chorus stares down adulthood as the lyrics urge, "Well, ya gotta do something. Won't be young forever. Gotta get yourself together." The visual translates this sentiment to the screen, as the band performs on stage at Hood River Middle School. Audience members cycle in and out, looking onward and absorbing the song's exploration of millennial malaise in the face of growing up.

"On this album, we were on a creative level we've never reached before," shares flor vocalist/guitarist Zach Grace. "I would credit it to collaboration at its finest. We were true to the music we wanted to make, the music that makes us excited, and the music we think will absolutely destroy live. That's Future Shine."

Future Shine represents flor's most collaborative body of work to date. Feeling uninspired to write while alone during quarantine, Grace gathered his bandmates - Dylan Bauld [bass], McKinley Kitts [guitar], and Kyle Hill [drums] - at Bauld's Los Angeles studio for a series of writing sessions as soon as it became safe to do so.

This time around, they built the bulk of the songs face-to-face, inspired by favorite records from the likes of MGMT, Phoenix, The Killers, and M83. "There was immediate magic. Imagine if we went back in time to my garage, but we had all of this experience writing songs and touring together? That's what it was like. All of these years culminated in feeling like kids again," adds Kitts.

Across the album's 11 tracks, flor excavate unshakable melodies from jubilant synths, buoyant beats, and lush guitars as they relay a coming-of-age story all their own. flor previewed Future Shine with the February release of lead single "Play Along", which Variance Magazine praised as "the perfect introduction to their next chapter as a band."

In March, the band returned with "Skate" and "Big Shot". The Honey Pop raved, "From the three singles that have been released, it's clear that this album highlights flor's musical range and their amazing ability to cover various genres. We are playing all three of these singles on repeat." Additional praise came for flor's 2018 track "Heart", which was recently featured prominently in the Netflix series Heartstopper.

Last week, flor concluded a successful North American tour supporting The Band CAMINO in sold out venues coast-to-coast. This evening, flor will ring in Future Shine with their first-ever "flor in Twenty Four." The band will perform a marathon three sold out shows in Brooklyn, NY, Los Angeles, CA, and Hood River, OR over the course of just 24 hours. Stay tuned for additional flor headline touring plans in the coming weeks.

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