Florence & the Machine - Ceremonials
The difficult second album ?
Far from it ! With "Ceremonials", Florence returns with the most assured of follow up albums which oozes artistic confidence from start to finish.
The difficult second album ?
Far from it ! With "Ceremonials", Florence returns with the most assured of follow up albums which oozes artistic confidence from start to finish.
Apart from the epic and melodramatic sound of the album, the high calibre of the writing and a big full production sound via producer Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Friendly Fires), the key element in the albums arsenal is undoubtedly Florence´s incredible and powerful vocal range.
There's a point (1.38) in the albums opener "Only If For a Night" when she sings that she "did cartwheels in your honour", which re-assure the listener that the quirky lyrics that made début album "Lungs" so enchanting remain a key element of the fabric of the songs on "Ceremonials".
Although the album is sonically a natural successor from "Lungs", with its mix of...it shouldn't work but it does, danceable indie, stadium rock, shades of goth, omnipresent big drums and harp solos, the end result is a far more ambitious, complete and epic sounding album.
1st single from the album " What the Water Gave Me"
