Florist - The Birds Outside Sang Told Slant What started out in 2013

What started out in 2013 as a conceptual project where dark thoughts and too-quiet moments could be placed

depicting quiet moments between friends and lovers and half-remembered celestial occurrences

commissioned by Roulette and the Jerome Foundation

focuses primarily on piano and voice

Florist - The Birds Outside Sang Told Slant What started out in 2013Florist began in the Catskill Mountains as the friendship project of Emily Sprague, Rick Spataro, and Jonnie Baker, later joined by Felix Walworth. Holdly (2015) and The Birds Outside Sang (2016) captured the earliest moments of that bond; hushed, homespun songs shaped equally by intimacy and resilience. The latter was written in the aftermath of Spragues near fatal bike accident, beginning in solitude and concluding with the bands return to each