Flowers (Durand Jones & The Indications album)
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| Released | June 27, 2025 | |||
| Length | 40:25 | |||
| Label | Dead Oceans | |||
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Flowers is the fourth studio album by American soul group Durand Jones & The Indications. It was released on June 27, 2025, via Dead Oceans in LP, CD and digital formats.[1][2] Flowers, preceded by the band's 2021 project, Private Space,[1] was self-produced and written by the band at the home of guitarist Blake Rhein in Chicago.[3] The lead single, "Been So Long", was released on March 18, 2025.[4]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| Mojo | [2] |
| Spill |  [6] |
| The Skinny | [7] |
| Uncut | [8] |
The album received a four-star rating from AllMusic, whose reviewer Andy Kellman noted, "Nothing is overly ornate. For the most part, it's a lowrider delight. There's no uptempo disco-funk. Plush, delightfully lazing ballads are the main mode."[5] The Skinny described it as "another lunch-line scoop of hearty 70s soul revivalism from music's most dependable dispensary. It's just on the underside of too pretty for its own good," and assigned it a rating of four stars.[7]
Uncut's Johnny Sharp remarked about the album, "here they have shuffled back a few years from the disco and jazz-funk infusions of 2021's Private Space to a more sun-dappled classic soul sound," giving it a score of eight.[8]
Stevie Chick of Mojo rated Flowers four stars, noted about songs from the album, "Elsewhere, The Indications offer pure escapism on 'Lovers' Holiday' with the expertise that's made them their generation's finest retronauts. The Stylistics would've killed for a song like 'Paradise', and I'm not sure they'd have performed it better."[2] Spill gave it a score of 3.5 out of five, calling it "a solid album, even if it might not quite reach the same level as their previous record, Private Space."[6]