Florence + The Machine return with King single & official video

23 February 2022, 14:58 | Updated: 7 March 2022, 15:56

Florence + The Machine's Florence Welch with King artwork inset — Florence + The Machine's have unveiled King . Picture: 1. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for LACMA 2. Press

Florence + The Machine have returned with a new single and video. Find out everything we know about their return so far.

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Florence + The Machine teased their return this week and now have shared their official King video.

The single is the lead track to come from the outfit's as-yet-untitled fifth studio album, which will follow 2018's High As Hope.

As can be expected from Florence Welch, the visuals are absolutely immaculate with a powerful video created to match her vocals.

Find out everything we know about Florence + The Machine's new era so far.

What is Florence + The Machine's new single called?

The new Florence + The Machine single is called King. Watch the official videodirected by Autumn de Wilde here:

Florence + The Machine - King

How did Florence + The Machine tease it?

The roll out of messaging kicked off on Monday (21st February) with eagle-eyed fans seeing images of Florence Welch draped in medieval garb on billboards.

FLORENCE BILLBOARD IN LONDON IM ABOUT TO LOSE IT pic.twitter.com/MDamI9dij1
— lucy ☽⋆゜ (@piscesprncess_) February 21, 2022

Super fans were also sent mail from Florence + The Machine with the image on a card marked "KING".

Didn't anticipate mail from Florence + the Machine today but HERE WE ARE. pic.twitter.com/SxWG2fbbNZ
— Lauren (@Penguingonemad) February 22, 2022

This reflected the band's new-look website and the posts on Florence Welch's own page, which were captioned: Something's Coming".

Something's coming pic.twitter.com/2NtR2c3y2c
— florence welch (@florencemachine) February 22, 2022

This was followed by a snippet of what appears to be a clip of Florence + The Machine's new video. The artistic visuals, were captioned: "Tomorrow" suggesting we could expect to see the new music on Wednesday 23rd February.

Tomorrow….😈

Directed by @autumndewilde pic.twitter.com/hXEMeOGQMz
— florence welch (@florencemachine) February 22, 2022

Find out what we know about Florence + The Machine's new album so far...

What is Florence + The Machine's new album?

There's no title for Florence + The Machine's fifth studio album, but it is rumoured that it will be titled Chapter 1.

Is there a tracklist?

There's no tracklist for the as-yet-untitled album yet, but it's been speculated that the album will have 15 songs to match the 15 cards on the website, with King being the lead track.