It’s GREATS season here at @tmagazine. We have four honorees this year (see my stories!) but this year I was especially thrilled to edit a profile by one of my favorite writers, Lauren Groff (@legroff), on one of my favorite musicians, @florence Welch. The results are weird and fascinating and beautiful, befitting the artists themselves; as Lauren writes, “Welch may not call herself spiritual, but the thing she kept pulling herself away from speaking about is the thing at the center of her, which she sometimes calls ‘the monster,’ sometimes ‘the beast.’ She struggles to control it, but it seems to be the source of her creative energy. ‘The beast is very good when it’s onstage. The monster is really useful and full of rage and glory and power,’ she said. But as soon as she began talking about the beast, she grew agitated; it felt wrong. Her spiritual sense ‘doesn’t feel like something I should advertise, because it’s really sacred,’ she told me, and changed the topic once more. When an oracle hears the voice of God and shares what she heard with others, she’s doing the same thing that an artist does while making art.” Photographs by @luisalbertorodriguezstudio; styling by @vanessareidofficial.