Exclusive track premiere of ‘All the Flowers’ by Alana Yorke, out May 17 via Paper Bag Records.

In November 2022, Alana Yorke awoke to find her left arm immobilized, signaling a hemorrhagic stroke’s stealthy intrusion into her life. As days passed, hospital corridors echoed with tests revealing the stroke’s impact on the creative hub of her brain in the parietal lobe. What could have spelled disaster, instead, became the catalyst for a profound shift in Yorke’s journey. Her past decade had been a labyrinth of trials, from a harrowing scuba incident to grappling with PTSD, yet the stroke’s unexpected arrival lifted the weight of her past, igniting a euphoric surge of creativity. This metamorphosis birthed ‘Destroyer,’ an art-pop masterpiece encapsulating Yorke’s odyssey through realms of self-discovery and musical collaboration with her husband. Through a melodic tapestry woven with symphonic grandeur, ’80s synth-pop hues, and minimalist echoes, Yorke offers her transformed essence as a universal offering, a testament to the power of resilience and artistic expression.

Yorke is sharing ‘All the Flowers,’ a sad song about loss.

Speaking on the track itself, Yorke writes: “’All the Flowers’ is about grief and loss. The song began as very personal grief and loss, related to experiences of depression and PTSD. The need to express or materialize those feelings so that they could perhaps be understood by others led to the image of “all the flowers in the world floating on the ocean” which I just found so devastatingly beautiful. While writing this song, David Bowie left this earth, and that very public, shared grief became another dimension to the songwriting experience and helped me to re-enter the intensity of feeling to complete the song. When we produced this song, I had a clear vision for the rhythmic part of the choruses (and pre-choruses) being slightly abrasive and in-your-face to counter the beauty of the song and give it a more intense, uncomfortable dimension.”

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