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Florence + The Machine - How Big How Blue How Beautiful…
Saucy warblers may come and go, but Florence + The Machine returns triumphant and at the top of her game.
Is there a voice more enormous than Florence Welch’s? It could fill a drained ocean and there’d still be breath to spare. As such, the ringing in our ears that’s been knocking about since 2011’s ‘Ceremonials’ faded out has left one hell of a hole in our musical consciousness. Saucy warblers may come and go, but no one’s quite filled that crooners’ gap that Florence + The Machine took to with such aplomb.
Short though it may be, the sheer size of the thing means it’s hard to imagine a return for Florence + The Machine more fitting than ‘How Big How Blue How Beautiful…’. So grand it’s almost unnerving, it sounds lifted straight from the Royal Albert Hall at Prom time, an almost unstoppable tidal wave of classical instrumentation and, of course, that ever-recognisable vocal. Enormously triumphant, as those horns towards the end sound the gleeful fanfare of Florence’s return, it’s pretty clear that the answers to that title are; fucking massive and overwhelmingly beautiful, but anything other than blue.
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