New Fuzz Club Records signings Floral Image announce debut album 'Gone Down Meadowland'
FLORAL IMAGE ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM ‘GONE DOWN MEADOWLAND’ TO BE RELEASED APRIL 25TH VIA FUZZ CLUB
PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘BURNING 305’ HERE
UK INDEPENDENT VENUE WEEK TOUR KICKS OFF TOMORROW
MAY UK/EU ALBUM TOUR ALSO ANNOUNCED TODAY
Gone Down Meadowland is the much-anticipated debut album release from Norwich, UK psych outfit Floral Image, releasing 25th April 2025 on the renowned Fuzz Club.
Today, the band are setting free a new single titled ‘Burning 305’, which is the perfect introduction to the album’s shimmering, psychedelic pop-soaked charms.
“Once the current line-up found its feet as a live ensemble, we realised how well we could arrange different melodies over bass and drums that just ‘run’n’gun’ for the finish line. It was written to be like the older, more sophisticated brother of Gallipoli,” explains vocalist and guitarist Fergus Nolan. “For the video, The track demanded something high-pace, high-potency, jagged to the eyes, uncanny. We pitched heists, end-of-days news programs, but there’s something about the intensity of a chase through the unknown that suited Burning. I think people often forget the innate vagueness of dreams when they use dreamlike in describing spaces- that feeling of not being able to track any object permanence in the world around you. The virtual reality needed to feel familiar and dissonant and daft, filled with disconnected architecture and hodgepodge furniture, as if something or someone is trying to trick you into being comfortable; that’s the swallowing hole of money and power that the lyrics explore.”
Watch the video for ‘Burning 305’ HERE:
After an extensive touring schedule throughout 2023, the band spent the following winter looking both inward and outward to the wide-skied rural landscape with the aim of distilling their wide pool of influences. Once the gigging horizons regularly started to expand beyond the sleepy shire of home, a fear of musical inertia had left the group asking themselves what their own sound even was. The long nights were used to re-assess and reconnect with a sense of play that had found itself shrunken in the rear-view mirror of a touring van. At Friday night jam sessions; wrapped in coats and warmed by homemade cocktails, Tex and Phil’s freezing living room provided the appropriate cultivation ground for the seeds of a new musical shape - one not solely intending to be big and formidable live, but provide a softer, more subtle recorded companion for both drunken gaiety with friends and unleashed introspection of the self.
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. Coming fresh out of support shows with Holy Wave and Glass Beams and witnessing first-hand how the delicate, sonic precision they flex on recordings only excels their live shows further, real justification was found. Over 30 songs were conjured, considered and arranged before being whittled down to a final 10 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 2025.
Pre-order ‘Gone Down Meadowland’ HERE
‘Gone Down Meadowland’ track-listing:
Meadowland
The Dream
Burning 305
Call Up The Doctor
The Score
Boogietown
Tiergarten
Howling Dog Song
Twist Of A Nerve
Sun For Hire
Catch Floral Image live in 2025 at the following dates:
28/01 - Birmingham, UK @ The Victoria
29/01 - Huddersfield, UK @ The Parish
30/01 - Sheffield, UK @ The Washington
31/01 - Northampton, UK @ The Garibaldi Hotel
01/02 - Newport, UK @ Le Pub
02/02 - St Leonards, UK @ The Piper
09/04 - Paris, FR @ Supersonic Records
10/04 - Clermont-Ferrand, FR @ Médiathèque Jack-Ralite
11/04 - Clermont-Ferrand, FR @ God Save Clermont Festival
03/05 - Angers, FR @ Joker's Pub
04/05 - Nantes, FR @ Ubik
06/05 - Ingolstadt, DE @ Neue Welt
07/05 - Kusel, DE @ Kinett
09/05 - Haarlem, NL @ Patronaat
10/05 - Eindhoven, NL @ Fuzz Club Festival
22/05 - Manchester, UK @ YES Basement
23/05 - Liverpool, UK @ Kazimer 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
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