FLO Release 'Therapy at the Club' After Creative Leap
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- FLO — the trio of Stella Quaresma, Jorja Douglas and Renée Downer — released their second album "Therapy at the Club," taking unprecedented creative control including separate songwriting sessions, vocal arrangements and production decisions, a marked shift from their debut when they leaned on outside writers and producers.
- The album reframes the nightclub as a space for heartbreak, healing and friendship, with the title track declaring "whatever the trauma / If you ever fall out of love / try therapy at the club."
- FLO pushed further into pop while keeping R&B at the core, including the track "Remedied" co-written with Grammy-winning songwriter Amy Allen, known for her work with Sabrina Carpenter and Tate McRae.
- The group's US campaign included an NPR Tiny Desk performance viewed over a million times and appearances on high-profile US podcasts, part of a broader push that follows their Best R&B/Soul Act win at the 2026 MOBO Awards.
- FLO now have more than five million monthly Spotify listeners and 1.2 million TikTok followers, having first broken through in 2022 with "Cardboard Box" before earning a Grammy nomination for their debut album "Access All Areas."
- The trio are setting their ambitions squarely at the top, with Douglas stating: "We want the shows, we want the numbers, we want the awards, we want the love and we want the success."
Why it matters: FLO's Grammy-nominated debut and 2026 MOBO win established them as the UK's leading new R&B act; this second album tests whether a young British group can convert 5M+ monthly Spotify listeners and a successful NPR-led US reintroduction into sustained pop crossover, with the trio now writing alone before reconvening rather than co-writing in group sessions.
