Florence And The Machine - Ceremonials [24 bit FLAC] vinyl

Florence And The Machine - Ceremonials (2011) [24 bit FLAC] vinyl

Released: 2011
Source: Original Release
Genre: Pop/Rock
Style: Alternative, Indie Rock
Codec: FLAC
Bits Per Sample: 24
Sample Rate: 96,000 Hz

A1. Only If For A Night
A2. Shake It Out
A3. What The Water Gave Me
B1. Never Let Me Go
B2. Breaking Down
B3. Lover To Lover
C1. No Light, No Light
C2. Seven Devils
C3. Heartlines
D1. Spectrum
D2. All This And Heaven Too
D3. Leave My Body

ThereΓÇÖs a point just past the halfway mark on ΓÇ£Shake It Out,ΓÇ¥ 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. ItΓÇÖs 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 canΓÇÖt help but return the call. Bigger and bolder than 2009ΓÇÖs 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 ΓÇ£What the Water Gave MeΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£Leave My Body,ΓÇ¥ a ghostly, Phil Spector-ish chorale on the surprisingly Beatlesque ΓÇ£Breaking Down,ΓÇ¥ and a defiant, uplifting horde of merry pranksters on the spirited ΓÇ£Heartlines,ΓÇ¥ resulting in that rare sophomore outing that not only manages to avoid the slump, but bests its predecessor in the process.