Hayley Williams releases a new FLOWERS album for VASES / breaks: Listen

Less than a year after releasing her solo debut, Hayley Williams returns with another new album: FLOWERS for VASES / breaks—Produced by Daniel James, mixed by Carlos de la Garza and mastered by Heba Kadry—, now released by Atlantic. Listen to it below.

FLOWERS for VASES / breaks includes a new version of “Find Me Here,” which Williams recently shared with him Petals for armor: self-serene EP. In a statement, the Paramore leader said: “This is not really a follow-up Petals for armor. In any case, it is a prequel or some kind of deviation between parts 1 and 2 of Petals. The meaning of the album as a whole is perhaps completely different from being immersed in each particular song. She continued:

For me, there is no other way to approach these individual issues than to be holistic. The ways in which they have given me time (by force, really) to cook with certain pains long enough to understand that, in fact, I need to release them … indefinitely. They may never have offered me that kindness; an opportunity to care for the seeds he had planted, harvest and weed or prune what is no longer alive, in order to make room for the living. I wrote and performed this album in its entirety. This is my first career. I recorded it at my home in Nashville, the house I’ve lived in since Paramore published After the laughter. 2020 was very hard, but I am alive and so my job is to keep living and help others do the same.

Read Pitchfork’s feature “Hayley Williams breaks all the songs on her personal album in depth, Petals for armor“.