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Ceremonials album Product Description
Ceremonials album by Florence & The Machine was released Nov 01, 2011 on the Universal Republic label. There's a point just past the halfway mark on "Shake It Out," the rousing first single from Florence + the Machine's second studio release, when the swelling guitars, organs, and strings, staccato percussion, and Florence Welch's air-raid siren of a voice lock up in a herculean battle over which one is going to launch itself into the stratosphere first. It's a contest that plays out at least once on each of Ceremonials' immaculately produced 12 tracks. Such carefully calculated moments of rhapsody would dissolve into redundant treacle in less capable hands, but Welch does emotional bombast better than any of her contemporaries, and when she wails into the black abyss above, the listener can't help but return the call. Bigger and bolder than 2009's excellent Lungs, Ceremonials rolls in like fog over the Thames, doling out a heavy-handed mix of Brit-pop-infused neo-soul anthems and lush, movie trailer-ready ballads that fuse the bluesy, electro-despair of Adele with the ornate, gothic melodrama of Kate Bush and Floodland-era Sisters of Mercy. ...See Full Description
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| She totally ROCKS! Great Album very different from LUNGS but just as good. By Susanne-bmbr1rirm9g (New York)  |
| Wonderful! This is the first cd I have bought by Florence & The Machine. Her breathtaking voice and the layers of sound make it a real pleasure to listen to; not a track that I skip as on most cds I own. Her voice, originality and song selection remind me a bit of Annie Lennox. By warnerfamily355 (near Syracuse, NY)  |
| special I can't recall another artist I listened to where, no matter what the song, thier voice lifted you away. Submitted by natalie in SF, CA What the hell!!? Why did the prevvious come up as 4 star???? By natalie (SF, CA) |
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