Florence writes her best songs when she’s drunk or has a
hangover, because that’s when the freedom, the feral music comes, creating
itself wildly from the fragments gathered in her notebooks and in her head.
“You’re lucid,” she explains, “but you’re not really there. You’re floating
through your own thoughts, and you can pick out what you need. I like those
weird connections in the universe. I feel that life’s like a consistent acid
trip, those times when things keep coming back.” Florence herself is a mass of
contradictions: she’s tough yet she’s terrified, a bundle of nerves and
passion, of darkness and pure joy. “I feel things quite intensely, which is why
the music has to be so intense. I’m either really sad or really happy, I’m
tired or completely manic. That’s when I’m at my most creative, but it’s also
dangerous for me. I feel I could write some good songs, or break some hearts.
Or tables. Or glasses.” Her soaring, epic vocals, quirky melodies and
self-contained musical world have already won her the 2009 Critics Choice Award
at the Brits.You’ll also find touches of Tom Waits and Nick Cave in her dark
visions, and if you heard a little of Bjork too, she’d find it a compliment.
Her debut album ‘Lungs’ is made of harps, choirs, drums, elevator shafts, bits
of metal, love, death, fireworks, string quartets, stamping, sighing, strange
electronic wailing, lambs, lions, sick, broken glass, blood, moon, stars,
drink, coffins, teeth, water, wedding dresses.. and the silences in between.
The songs are full of Gothic. At the 53rd Grammy Awards, Florence and the
Machine were nominated for Best New Artist.Listen song here:YouTube
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