British Girl Band FLO Want It All After Grammy Nod and MOBO Win
Ninoda.com – British girl band FLO want it all — and they’re confident they’ll get it. The trio recently won Best R&B/Soul Act at the 2026 MOBO Awards while receiving their first Grammy nomination, marking a significant milestone in their career. “It’s kind of been like a bit of a crash course in making music,” says Stella Quaresma about creating their second album, Therapy at the Club. After entering the music industry as teenagers, the members say they grew to trust their own instincts during six months of recording.
Creative Growth and Authentic Sound
For their latest album, the group became more involved than ever before in every stage of creation, from songwriting and vocal arrangements to production decisions. “Sometimes you walk away from a session and people are surprised that you contributed, that you had ideas,” says Jorja Douglas. Quaresma suggests that’s partly because when they first entered the industry, they leaned on the experience of writers and producers around them.
“In the past we’d kind of been okay with that,” she says. “But now we really don’t need that kind of crutch.” For Renée Downer, that greater creative control has resulted in their most authentic record yet. “We’ve been a lot more involved, so this really is the best reflection of us at this point in time,” she says. All three knew one another from social media before forming as a group in 2019.
Love has always been central to their music, but on this album they explore its messier realities, with nights out providing the backdrop for stories of heartbreak, healing and friendship. “So go ahead and kiss who you wanna / whatever the trauma / If you ever fall out of love / try therapy at the club,” they sing on the title track.
Quaresma says the title came to represent the role friends can play during difficult moments. “It’s the idea that you’re having the worst time of your life, but your friends are saying, ‘No, you’re coming out, you’re going to dance and forget about it for a second.'” While R&B remains at the heart of their sound, they also aimed to push further into pop on their second album.
One example is Remedied, co-written with Grammy-winning songwriter Amy Allen, who has worked with pop stars Sabrina Carpenter and Tate McRae. When making their Grammy-nominated debut album, Access All Areas, the trio wrote songs together — but for Therapy at the Club, they wrote separately before bringing ideas back to one another. Their debut album was nominated for Best Progressive R&B Album at the 2026 Grammys.
The group now has more than five million monthly Spotify listeners, 1.2 million TikTok followers and almost 58 million likes on the platform. The campaign around their second album has included an NPR Tiny Desk performance viewed over a million times and appearances on high-profile US podcasts, helping reintroduce them stateside. “It felt like we went to university and graduated with honours,” Quaresma adds.
That collaborative approach also extended to the album’s guest appearances. One of just two spots on the record is Sex in Peace, their second collaboration with rising British R&B singer kwn. Quaresma wrote the song before bringing it to the rest of the group, and Downer says working with kwn has become a natural fit. “We work really well with kwn when it comes to sexy R&B, so it felt right to send it to her and see if she’d do a verse,” she says. “She sent it back really quickly. We had no notes. We loved it.”
Their ambition doesn’t stop with the music. Live performance is never far from their minds, with choreography, visuals and music videos all considered throughout the album-making process. “As we elevate everywhere else in our career, with the vocals, the music, the appearance, we also want to elevate the music videos and the dance,” Douglas explains. The demanding schedule has meant long rehearsal days and little sleep, but Douglas says it’s worth it. “This is the most thrilling, entertaining, fulfilling job we could have ever asked for.”
