Why every Irish woman needs to listen to the new Maisie Peters album Florescence

Maisie Peters is back with her new album Florescence, and it is the most gentle soundtrack about growth

Every so often, you'll find an album that feels like your soul album. One full of lyrics that feel like they're straight out of your own diary. One that hits you in the gut but also heals your heart in a way. One that becomes the soundtrack to your own life, and I believe, for many women, Florescence by Maisie Peters will be this album.

Following the major success of her album The Good Witch, Peters returns with a gentle, soothing album about growth and finding love that makes your world feel serene, and it's nothing but a joy to listen to.

The standout track for me is Mary Janes. Mary Janes is the anthem women need, especially in a world that is always telling them to make themselves smaller, to shrink 'to be worthy'.

Maisie Peters' lyrics remind us that you grow most when you let go of society's expectations and pressures. Accepting who you are and learning to love that person is enough.

"I'm not the coolest or the greatest in the club; it doesn't matter anymore."

"He loves my stretch mark and my baby face, here's to my buccal fat and looking my god damn age."

Peters writes with a vulnerability many women will relate to, but with a gentle warmth that makes this album feel like a hug from one of your closest friends.

It's the kind of album that will reassure you, comfort you, make you well up, and heal your heart, too. The beautiful honesty and vulnerability in the lyrics makes it an album I'll return to again and again.

Florescence was co-produced with 2x Grammy Award winner Ian Fitchuk (Kacey Musgraves, Beyoncé, Role Model) and features duets with Julia Michaels and Marcus Mumford.

Drawing from the aftermath of the relationship explored on The Good Witch, as well as the love story she’s now living - having fallen in love with her high school sweetheart - Florescence reflects on how the right love can help heal the wrong ones. It’s an album about perspective, self-realisation, healing, and ultimately, learning how to flourish.

“These 15 tracks depict a blossoming of myself from ages 23 to 25 and a blossoming of a true, real love that anchors both me and this record. It tells the story of the last few long winters, with all of their villains and thorns, heartbreaks and rains, and it leads you, by the end, into a perfect English spring, into the hope and catharsis that comes when the first wildflower blooms,” shares Maisie.

“This album feels like a true representation of healing, of finding hope, peace, and strength not just in somebody else, but in yourself. It is knowing that there was a point to all the sadness of before, and the point is the woman you see in this mirror now, and the person you see by her side.”

Florescence by Maisie Peters is out now.