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// A gargantuan backing in the world of alternative and an opening slot for Olivia Rodrigo – not bad for a band who started out with no plan. //

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Florence Road: a band originally posting covers on TikTok who decided to have a go from their own making, are now seemingly everyone’s favourite new band. So with a month passing since their latest EP was dropped in the foray, we felt it only apt to dive into what everyone has been talking about.

An Irish quartet not bereft of ideas, they blast out an intertwining of alternative rock, indie acoustic and pop hooks that no doubt glean a bright light in a contemporary landscape of doom and gloom. Their rise has been that quick that many would no doubt argue that they’re either an industry plant (fuelled by all-female cast) or an AI produced collective. But it can’t be ignored that it was seemingly overnight. The success to fame could be down to the catalogue which rubs shoulders with many a sub-genre – or maybe that opening slot for one of the biggest female soloist in the alt-rock landscape had something to do with it.

The slow workings-out of Hand Me Downs chart the band in an alt-rock headspace, while curb-stomper Goodnight plays into the buoyant and catchy of Olivia’s SOUR that smashed all expectation. Caterpillar lowers tempers with an intimate acoustic sermon before Heavy trajects the bands’ best to date – a perfect overview of the badns’ soft and sombre interlaced with the fire of warbling drums and piercing guitar walls.

A strikingly emphatic influence in alternative rock, Florence Road deserve all the flowers.