UK Psych Cadets Floral Image Release New Single 'The Score'

Gone Down Meadowland is the much-anticipated debut album release from Norwich, UK psych outfit Floral Image, due for release April 25th via the renowned Fuzz Club label. Ahead of the release, the band are previewing the album with a new single tantalisingly titled ‘The Score’. Under-pinned with an infectiously metronomic bass and drum groove, the song’s beautiful melody floats lazily on top, slowly ebbing into your subconscious.  

“The Score appeared scarily fully formed in a dream whilst barely sleeping in the Birmingham Central Travelodge after a gig we played there. Instantly upon waking at 7am I scuttled past the bodies on the floor to flesh it out as a song in the front seat of our tour van on the 12-string guitar. God bless the subconscious…this time,” explains vocalist and guitarist Fergus Nolan.

More than ever, the band wanted to produce a brand of East-Coast psychedelia that reflected the natural lusciousness and glorious solitude of the immediate world around them. Over 30 songs were conjured, considered and arranged before being whittled down to a final 10 for their debut full-length that epitomise what they do best - ten tracks of vivid hue, harnessed live power, all laced together in fluid lyrical harmonies. Taking inspiration from band favourites Woods, KGLW, Stereolab, among many others, a string of at-home recording sessions commenced over a 6-week period across the summer of 2024.

“Barns, basements and boxrooms across Norfolk were all utilised to unearth the songs from the soil of our collective minds. We practically lived with each other and buried ourselves in the music for what was almost a whole half year. We would cook for each other, learn from each other and laugh like we never could elsewhere. Even ‘that’ tricky period of cutting songs off went by with all of us in complete faith that the album's needs seemed greater than our own. If it wasn’t for the fact that recording had almost become secondary to getting actually quite good at Frisbee, we might have been able to release a double LP.”

There is a mischief and daydream to the character Floral Image, on full dynamic display across the record- a reflection of both the playful fraternity of band members Fergus Nolan (vocals, guitars), Jack Warner (vocals, keys), Matt Kennedy (bass guitar), Mitch Forsyth (drums, visuals), & Phil Whitton (guitars, visuals), and the ever-weaving textures they make together. It is an infrastructure that is unstructured; a body of work that bends and grows and shifts between light, dark, malaise, excitement. There are moments of head-down ferocity and, right there beside them, pools of pulsing wonderment. Fist and feather, hand in hand.

Produced by the band themselves, mixed by Hugh Fothergill of Volleyball, and mastered by Joseph Carra at Crystal Mastering of KGLW fame, Gone Down Meadowland is Floral Image’s first full flourish. They take the record on the road across Europe and the UK throughout April & May.

Catch Floral Image live at the following dates:

• 10/04 - Clermont-Ferrand, FR @ Médiathèque Jack-Ralite
• 11/04 - Clermont-Ferrand, FR @ God Save Clermont Festival
• 12/05 - Bordeaux, FR @ La Maison Allez Les Filles
• 03/05 - Angers, FR @ Joker's Pub
• 04/05 - Nantes, FR @ Ubik
• 06/05 - Ingolstadt, DE @ Neue Welt
• 07/05 - Kusel, DE @ Kinett
• 08/05 - Troyes, FR @ The Message
• 09/05 - Haarlem, NL @ Patronaat
• 10/05 - Eindhoven, NL @ Fuzz Club Festival
• 22/05 - Manchester, UK @ YES Basement
• 23/05 - Liverpool, UK @ Kazimier Stockroom
• 24/05 - Edinburgh, UK @ The Voodoo Rooms - The Speakeasy
• 25/05 - Newcastle, UK @ Zerox
• 28/05 - Bristol, UK @ The Lanes
• 29/05 - Brighton, UK @ Green Door Store
• 30/05 - London, UK @ MOTH Club
• 31/05 - Norwich, UK @ Norwich Arts Centre
• 03/08 - Kendal, UK @ Kendal Calling Festival