Irish four-piece Florence Road dropped their new EP ‘Spring Forward‘ on March 27th, a four-track follow-up to their debut mixtape ‘Fall Back’ that arrives just as the band takes their biggest stage yet. The timing is deliberate. They are currently on the road in North America as special guests on select dates of The Last Dinner Party‘s tour, and they’ve already locked in a headline slot at Baby’s All Right in New York on April 14th, their first as headliners in the city.
The EP collects four songs: ‘Hanging Out to Dry‘, ‘Miss‘, ‘Rabbits Can Swim‘, and ‘Storm Warnings‘. Running fifteen minutes total, it is compact but considered, each track carving out a different shade of the same emotional territory.
Love, Loss, and the Ones That Stick
The band spoke plainly about what the record is. “At its core, Spring Forward is about relationships, the ups and downs, the ones you want to forget and the ones you never want to let go of,” they said. “It lives in that space between love, loss and the slow realisation that not everything you lose was meant to stay. It’s about being young and discovering love in all the ways, looking back, and figuring out which people and moments actually stick with you.”
That clarity of intent lands in the music. ‘Rabbits Can Swim’ is a piano ballad, soft-footed and direct, the kind of song that asks for a simple love while knowing it rarely works that way. ‘Storm Warnings’ pulls harder, building around discordant layers that feel like getting turned around mid-argument and not knowing how you got there.
Florence Road are Lily Aron on vocals, Emma Brandon on guitar, Ailbhe Barry on bass, and Hannah Kelly on drums. They grew up together in Bray, Ireland, spent their teens writing songs in a garden shed, and have since shared stages with Olivia Rodrigo, Wallows, Wolf Alice, and Royel Otis. Last year’s ‘Fall Back’ mixtape sold out their first UK and Ireland headline run. They closed 2025 landing on the BBC Sound of 2026 list and Pandora’s Artist to Watch 2026, and earned covers for DIY, Hot Press, and DORK.
First Steps Into America
The North American run takes them through Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Washington D.C., and beyond before the April 14th Baby’s All Right headline show. Dates extend into Europe through May, with Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on May 27th already sold out. A homecoming show at Fairview Park in Dublin is set for June 24th, with the tour closing at Thomond Park in Limerick on July 1st.
The trajectory from garden shed to Hammerstein Ballroom support slot is not especially long in years, but the ground covered is real. ‘Spring Forward’ is out now on Warner Records UK. The New York headline show at Baby’s All Right on April 14th is a moment worth catching before the rooms get larger.
