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Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials Audio CD

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Ceremonials album by Florence & The Machine was released Nov 20, 2012 on the Island (Label) 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. Ceremonials CD music 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. Producer Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Friendly Fires) knows that the fiercest weapon in his arsenal is Florence herself, and he stacks her vocals accordingly, creating a fevered, pagan gospel choir on "What the Water Gave Me" and "Leave My Body," a ghostly, Phil Spector-ish chorale on the surprisingly Beatlesque "Breaking Down," and a defiant, uplifting horde of merry pranksters on the spirited "Heartlines," resulting in that rare sophomore outing that not only manages to avoid the slump, but bests its predecessor in the process. [A deluxe edition of Ceremonials features three bonus studio tracks, as well as a demo version of "What the Water Gave Me." ] ~ James Christopher Monger Australian two CD edition includes a bonus disc choc-full of live tracks from all over the globe.2011 sophomore album from the British band led by singer/songwriter Florence Welch. Ceremonials is a stunningly accomplished record by an artist teetering on the wind-blown top of her game, an extraordinary testament to what Florence refers to as "my incorrigible maximalism" The pounding epiphanic positivism of `Spectrum'; the galloping massed-ranks majesty of `All This And Heaven Too' and `Shake It Out'; the triumphant emotional battle cries of `No Light No Light' and `Heartlines'. Spend a little time with Ceremonials and what strikes you first and foremost is the apparent confidence of its execution. Recorded with her full band over five weeks this summer in Abbey Road's legendary Studio 3, Ceremonials is another product of her long-running collaboration with producer Paul Epworth. Together they've created an expansive art-pop vision that can be both captivatingly tender while still frequently soaring to places where it can overwhelm the senses like an emotive tidal wave. Rolling Stone (p. 77) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "This is a very British record, drawing on a tradition of iconoclastic U. K pop that stretches from Kate Bush and Siouxsie and the Banshees to PJ Harvey."
Rolling Stone (p. 71) - Ranked #27 in Rolling Stone's '50 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "[With] choirs and string players backing a voice that soars so high, it makes them seem like ants on the ground below."
Spin (p. 67) - "[Welch is] a bloodied, bloodying songbird in a gilded cage of immaculately crafted, slow-burn, chest-beating empowerment anthems, gripping steel bars that her elegantly volcanic voice could shred at any moment."
Entertainment Weekly (p. 74) - "[A] confident, unflinching tour de force.... ...See Full Description

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She totally ROCKS!
Great Album very different from LUNGS but just as good.
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Wonderful!
Ceremonials music CDs 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.
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Ceremonials songs 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????
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Ceremonials songs Product Details

Label	Island (Label)
Orig Year	2011
CD Universe Part number	8859511
Catalog number	3722339
Discs	1
Release Date	Nov 20, 2012
Additional Info	Bonus CD; Bonus Tracks; Limited Edition