Even before the pandemic turned the world upside down, songwriter Florence Welch found fascination with a very particular historical phenomenon: choreomania, which describes the gathering of large groups of people, thousands even, during the Renaissance, who danced wildly together - to the point of utter exhaustion, collapse and death. An image that Florence herself could identify with all too well, having toured non-stop herself for over ten years, devoting herself to her songs night after night on stages around the world. Florence's love of dance runs like a thread through the new album. The result is fourteen danceable, sometimes demonic, sometimes bittersweet tracks in which Florence weaves influences from dance, folk, 70s Iggy Pop and more into something she describes as "Nick Cave at the club." Lyrically, Welch is at her peak: never has she sung more strongly and honestly about her identity, concepts of femininity and masculinity, and the search for redemption. Together with producers Jack Antonoff and Dave Bayley (Glass Animals), "Dance Fever" has been cast into a powerful and impressive final result.