"I’ve Had the Best Few Years": Maisie Peters on Her Upcoming Album Florescence
This is an exciting year for Maisie Peters and her fans, as the British singer will release her anticipated third studio album, Florescence, on May 15, 2026.
In typical 2010s fashion, the singer began her career by posting original songs on YouTube in 2015. It took some time, but in 2021, under Gingerbread Man Records, a label founded by Ed Sheeran, she released her debut studio album titled You Signed Up for This, which was followed up by her UK number one album The Good Witch in 2023 that included hits such as "Better Body" and "Lost The Breakup."
In October 2025, Maisie Peters gave fans the first taste of her new record with "Audrey Hepburn," and she also surprised listeners with a second song, "You You You," released simultaneously.
Another part of the era was introduced to fans with the release of "Say My Name In Your Sleep" at the end of 2025, before the album announcement at the beginning of 2026. Alongside the album, fans can look forward to some intimate "Before The Bloom" shows worldwide, as well as a brand-new song, "My Regards."
In a one-on-one interview with THE UNSEEN Magazine, Maisie Peters sat down with us in Berlin to tell us more about her upcoming record, her relationship with touring, book recommendations and much more.
HERE'S THE FULL INTERVIEW
Maisie, you spent the last two days in Berlin and travelling has been a big part of your life for the last couple of months. You wrote your upcoming album, Florescence, across Nashville, London and Suffolk. How did each place influence the sound or emotional tone in a different way?
Maisie Peters: I think Nashville probably had the biggest influence because it's the city of country music. I love country music and I've been very inspired by it my whole life. So I think recording and writing in Nashville gave the album a real country thread that runs through it. It really influenced the way in which I wrote as well. Country music is often written quite fast and it's really lyrical first, which I think was also true to the album.
And of course, writing in the UK, so London and Suffolk, it's my home and because of that, I'm able to write my most honest music there. Often, I am actually at home when I'm in those places, and in an environment that feels like home, you're able to push yourself more and experiment more because you have that inherent sense of safety.
You explained on Instagram how Florescence is about healing, changing and growing. What was the most difficult lesson you learned when dealing with these topics while creating the album?
Maisie Peters: The hardest thing in making Florescence wasn't really the writing, but it was the finishing. Working as a team, with my team, with other writers and producers and getting to that final stage. I learned that nothing is going to feel perfect when it's done. I'm not a perfectionist, so that shouldn't be a surprise, but I think I learned that nothing is going to feel done and sometimes you have to trust in others' opinions as well as obviously prioritising your own.
Every time I make an album, I have so many memories of the previous one I made, and I really sort of romanticise and hold onto the previous one. I had that with my second album as well, where I really romanticised and pedestalled my first one. So I think it's kind of a little bit about letting go of that as well, and accepting that you're in a new era or on a new page.
You just talked about previous albums. For your first two albums, you had a title track, but on this one, you don't. What was the reasoning behind that?
Maisie Peters: On this one, I didn't know the title until I really finished the album. I needed to finish the album to understand the story that wove throughout it and to grasp the crux of what I was saying. So, obviously, I couldn't write a title track because I didn't know what the title was until the whole album was done. However, there is a real nod and ode to the title in the very last song, in the second verse, for when everyone gets it.
Is there a lyric you'd like to share with us in advance?
Maisie Peters: I'm afraid I'm going to gatekeep for now...
For your cover shoot of Florescence, you've worked with the talented Ella Pavlides, and for your previous album, The Good Witch, it was no other than Alice Moitié who shot the cover. Additionally, you have Tina Hizon in your band and Sophie Scott as your photographer for you on tour. What does it mean to you to have so many female creatives around you in your professional life?
Maisie Peters: I love it. I think I always want to make my professional life a replica of my personal life, and I'm surrounded by and hang out with so many women, and that's really my preferred way of working. Also, all the women on my team are so hardworking, talented, and passionate, and it really feels like a family.
Especially with Florescence, I did work with predominantly, nearly all women for the creative, for the artwork, design and packaging, and I think that was really lovely, because there was a real eye for detail, and everyone was so in sync and on the same page, and I think that really came from us all being very like-minded and similar.
You have two collabs on your newest album. One with Julia Michaels and another one with Marcus Mumford. What was it like to work with each of them, and how did the collaborations come about?
Maisie Peters: It was so fun to work with both of them, first of all, Julia has been a hero of mine since I was a teenager. So has Marcus, to be fair, but Julia has been an inspiration, especially as a songwriter. She has always been such an influence on me, and it was so amazing to get to work with her. When we finished the song, and she texted me to say she'd love to be a part of it if I released it, it was obviously the best moment ever, and I'm so excited. I've done some listening parties for the album in LA and New York, and my fans loved “Kingmaker”, which is Julia and I's song, so I'm really excited for that song to come out.
Marcus was such an important figure in the making of this album as well. We wrote a lot for it, and one of those songs, “Say My Name in Your Sleep”, is obviously on the record already, but he was such an inspiring person, and really helped guide me to where Florescence got to. I was super involved. Even when I was in the studio in Nashville with Ian, producing it, we'd be calling Marcus to ask his opinion on bits and bobs, and he'd give us notes. So yeah, they were both super invaluable in the process.
You have some songs that are out already, like “My Regards”, which is the freshest taste of the album. What made you decide to release that song? What does that song mean to you?
Maisie Peters: “My Regards” is the fourth song to be released; there were others before it. I think the other songs that came prior to it were much softer and smaller in universe, and I really deliberately wanted to start the campaign in that way, so that it really felt like the very first budding of a flower that eventually blooms.
But then, with "My Regards", we entered 2026; it was a new year, and I really wanted to start it in a real place of strength and also a real place of fun. I think the record is much more vulnerable, and much softer and more fragile, but obviously, there are still lots of songs that feel really joyful, fun and exciting, like there has been on all my previous albums, and that's something I'm really passionate about, and that is a part of my character as well.
So I think it was important to release “My Regards” to let people into that side of the album as well.
In the song, you sing “The only air he'll breathe is my perfume”. Can you tell us: What is the signature Masie Peters perfume, and what do you like to wear nowadays?
Maisie Peters: I have a couple, to be fair. I'm not a monogamist with my perfume, but the one I've worn most frequently since I was a teenager is Jo Malone English Pear & Freesia.
You explained that the album is about blossoming to you. If this album is a flowering, what do you think the seed of it was? What was the seed that really kicked this album off?
Maisie Peters: I think the seed was the journey that I had to go through to get to the blossoming, to get to making this album, which was really just my life in the last few years. If I had to pick one specific moment, what would the seed be? It's so hard to say because the album is so autobiographical. It's about so many different parts of my life.
I guess you could say, in a funny way, the seed of the album would probably be my previous album, called The Good Witch. I think Florescence is really the next part of the story. It's almost like The Good Witch is the first book and Florescence is the sequel. So maybe that's the seed.
Andy: So like sisters, almost.
Maisie Peters: Yeah! Maybe the seed is even the song “There It Goes”, now that I'm thinking about it. I think that song, in a lot of ways, was the origin story of Florescence.
In your announcement post, you mentioned how being 25 and ready to share this offering is like a peach in your hand. What feels different about releasing music at this stage of your life compared to earlier records? You have been in this industry for almost a decade. What's different now compared to the beginning?
Maisie Peters: So much is different. I love releasing. I love getting older and releasing music with that because I think with every year you feel much calmer and much more secure in who you are and then that feeds into what you're releasing. I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful fan base who, touch wood, I know care about what I release and will pore over the lyrics, the harmonies, and whatever it is. So I think getting older is just trusting in that and making music for those people. And knowing that I'll release this album, then I'll probably release another, and then another... So don't take it so seriously.
Throughout the years, you've also played all sorts of venues. You went from pubs to theatres, then played arenas and stadiums, like Wembley, when you opened for Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour. Yesterday you played at a bookshop and before that at some florist shops. How has your relationship with touring changed throughout your career and what is something that you will do differently going into this next one that is coming?
Maisie Peters: I've toured a lot through my career. Some years, I was really on tour more than off, which was so fun. Looking back, I just had the best time and the best memories; I wouldn't change it for the world.
I think going into this era, I'm keen to make sure that vocally and physically, I don't just burn myself out. Whether that's trying to schedule in breaks and gaps or just being more conscious when you're on the road to keep it relatively calm. Usually, you say that with the best intentions, and then you'll always end up with a sideman who is like, “She's on vocal rest, don't talk to her”.
I've had the best few years and I would love to keep touring, keep playing shows and see people that I love playing in bookshops, stadiums, theatres and florists. That's such a wonderful thing to get to do, to get to play in all those different places.
Speaking of bookshops, yesterday you had a little Q&A and a little gig at an independent bookshop. What are you currently reading? Are there any books you can recommend, or maybe a book that has been on your reading list forever that you have not gotten to yet?
Maisie Peters: What a good question. Let me look, because my toxic trait is that I read books I can't remember the titles of. I'm just reading them, so by the time I'm reading them, I don't remember their titles.
The book I’m currently reading is called "Heap Earth Upon It" by Chloe Michelle Howarth, who is an amazing author. I think it's her new book, and I'm really enjoying it. It's sort of like a gothic, sapphic, Irish horror, but I haven't gotten to the horror yet.
And then what's a book on my reading list that I've not read yet? Let me check the reading list again. I don't know if you are a big reader, but my favorites and my good reads are always expanding every day. There is a book called "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" by Kiran Desai, which was nominated for the Booker Prize, and I really do want to read it, but it's just so long that every time I look at it, I go: “Another day”. And I also want to read more from Helen Garner, who's an Australian author. I've only ever read one called "This House of Grief," which was about a murder trial. And I'm going to Australia next week, so maybe I'll do it there.
When listeners play Florescence on May 15th, what do you hope they feel in the first 30 seconds?
Maisie Peters: You know, I hope they feel whisked into a different world. I hope they feel like they've left wherever they are, the car, the bus, their bedroom, and that they feel like they've entered a different universe, the universe of Florescence. And then I hope anytime they need to, they can just go and exist there.
Andy: Thank you so much, Masie. I can't wait to listen to the album.
Maisie Peters: Aw, thank you so much. This was so fun.
Make sure to check out Maisie Peters' third studio album Florescence out May 15th, 2026.
LISTEN TO MASIE PETER’S NEWEST SONG “My Regards” HERE:
INTERVIEW BY
Andy
(Live) music is one of my biggest passions, which is why I enjoy exploring pop culture in my writings. From analyzing albums to reviewing concerts. I'm especially interested in fandom culture, which often comes through in my work.
PHOTOS BY
Pauline
I’ve loved photography since I was a kid and (live) music has always been such an important part of my life, getting to combine both of those things is a dream come true. I also love urban and street photography, especially while traveling. Any of my friends can tell tales about having to wait for me while i take pictures wherever we go haha. So: if you’re ever looking for me, chances are you’ll find me and my camera at a concert or out somewhere traveling (or at a concert while traveling).
