Florence and the machine is an artrock indie band from the UK.Their featured instrument is the harp.Their first single was kiss with a fist,an indie rock type song followed by the brilliant 'dog days are over'.They are signed to Island records.
They released an EP called 'A lot of love,a lot of blood' featuring a haunting cover of 'hospital beds' by the Cold War Kids.
In summer 2009 they released their full-length debut aldum 'Lungs' and a duluxe editionwas released the same day
It was widely praised and won the BRIT award for best british album of 2009.It features a wide variety of different styles accompanied by Florence Welchs powerful soaring voice.Thundering drums and twinkling harps feature throughout as well as a wide-variety of unusual noises too.The lyrics are dark and fhaunting,even if the meledy of the song itself is upbeat and decievingly joyful.Many songs are about violence and death and rejection.The gothic 'my boy builds coffins' is almost threatening.The blusy 'Girl with one eye is filled with murderous intentions.Drumming song is a gothic imagery filled tale about going mad.Kiss with a fist is garage rock punk.Dog days are over is a joyful song about coming though hard times.Rabbit heart is an alice in wonderlandesqe song about becoming brave and sacrifice,with an almighty choir of florences singing the chorus.Im not calling you a liar is a quiet gentle song about being taken over by a ghost and being unable to let go.Howl is about primal desire and werewolves with tribal drums in the background.Between two lungs is a song about release thats starts whispery and gains strength for an almighty gasp.Cosmic love is about rejction and being left in the dark and is the most epic track on the album with crashing drums and roaring and twinkling harps at the end.Hurricane Drunk is a whirlwing of a song and about moving on and forgetting people.Blinding is a very haunting song about broken dreams and is almot like a kate bush song with more drums.You got the love is a soulful cover of candi statons origianl.Bird song is a tell-tale heart song of guilt and insanity.Falling is a very sad gentle song.Hardest of hearts is also gentle and about holding love back.Swimming is about being out of your depth and finding your way back
Lungs Deluxe track list.
1-Dog days are over
2-Rabbit heart(raise it up)
3-Im not calling you a liar
4-Howl
5-Kiss with a fist
6-Girl with one eye
7-Drumming song
8-Between two lungs
9-Cosmic love
10-My boy builds coffins
11-Hurricane drunk
12-Blinding
13-You've got the love(cover)
14-Bird song intro
15-Bird song
16-Dog days are over(demo)
17-Falling
18-Hardest of hearts
19-Ghosts(demo
20-girl with one eye(bayou percussion)
21-Swimming
Shame on you people,for not having a group for them already.Really they are an amazing band,whose live shows are almost otherwordly.They have the most epic(and i mean epic here) songs ive ever heard.
They will be releasing a new album in 2011,focusing on a science theme rather than gothic horror.Florence Welch told the BBC'Where the first one was animal and antamoical,this one is going to be chemical and elemental'.A song called 'strangness and charm was performed during their cosmic love tour in the UK and ireland
Their last single from Lungs 'Cosmic love' will be released in July,teh video can already be viewed on their website.
www.florenceandthemachine.net
At the brit awards she performed you got the love alongside dizzee rascal
She also wrote a track before the album Lungs called Heavy in your arms but decieded not to include it.It is now appearing on the twilight soundtrack for eclipse(Terrible movie,great song)
She performed 'Dog days are over' live at the VMA's and won a VMA for best art direction for the same song.
