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Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials (Deluxe Version) (CD)

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Ceremonials is the second studio album by English indie pop band Florence and the Machine, released on 28 October 2011 by Island Records. The band started working on the album in 2010 and finished it in 2011. All of the songs on the album were produced by Paul Epworth, who also worked prominently on the band's debut album Lungs (2009).

Product Info

Artists
  1. Florence + the machine
Barcode
0602527850146
Category
  1. Performer
  2. Rock & Pop
  3. Alternative
Copy Control
No
Country
South Africa
Country of Origin
USA / Canada
Distributor
Universal Music Canada
Duration
161m 58s
Engineer
Mark Rankin
Format
Audio CD
Label
Universal Island Records
Media
CDDVD
Notes

Personnel: Florence Welch (vocals); Robert Ackroyd (guitar); Tom Monger (harp); Christopher Lloyd Hayden (drums).
Liner Note Author: Emma Forrest.
Recording information: Abbey Road Studio; Wolf Tone Studios, London.
Photographer: Tom Beard.
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. 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

Number of Discs
2
Number of Items
1
Performer
Florence + the Machine
Previews

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....CEREMONIALS genuinely rocks..." -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly (p.100) - Ranked #5 in Entertainment Weekly's 'The Top 10 Albums Of 2011' -- "A big believer in Red Sea-parting melodrama, she's got the orchestral grandeur to pull it off."
Magnet (p.55) - "There's a marked '80s quality to the production that invigorates the music and nudges it into a meatier realm."

Producer
Paul Epworth
Release Date
28 October 2011
Songs / Tracks
  1. [ Disc 01 Track 01 ] Only If for a Night
  2. [ Disc 01 Track 02 ] Shake It Out
  3. [ Disc 01 Track 03 ] What the Water Gave Me
  4. [ Disc 01 Track 04 ] Never Let Me Go
  5. [ Disc 01 Track 05 ] Breaking Down
  6. [ Disc 01 Track 06 ] Lover to Lover
  7. [ Disc 01 Track 07 ] No Light, No Light
  8. [ Disc 01 Track 08 ] Seven Devils
  9. [ Disc 01 Track 09 ] Heartlines
  10. [ Disc 01 Track 10 ] Spectrum
  11. [ Disc 01 Track 11 ] All This and Heaven Too
  12. [ Disc 01 Track 12 ] Leave My Body
  13. [ Disc 01 Track 13 ] [CD-ROM Track]
  14. [ Disc 02 Track 01 ] Remain Nameless
  15. [ Disc 02 Track 02 ] Strangeness and Charm
  16. [ Disc 02 Track 03 ] Bedroom Hymns
  17. [ Disc 02 Track 04 ] What the Water Gave Me [Demo]
  18. [ Disc 02 Track 05 ] Landscape [Demo]
  19. [ Disc 02 Track 06 ] Heartlines [Acoustic]
  20. [ Disc 02 Track 07 ] Shake It Out [Acoustic]
  21. [ Disc 02 Track 08 ] Breaking Down [Acoustic]
Studio / Live
Studio
Title
Ceremonials (Deluxe)
Tracks

1 Only If For A Night Florence + The Machine 04:58
2 Shake It Out Florence + The Machine 04:40
3 What The Water Gave Me Florence + The Machine 05:32
4 Never Let Me Go Florence + The Machine 04:37
5 Breaking Down Florence + The Machine 03:49
6 Lover To Lover Florence + The Machine 04:03
7 No Light, No Light Florence + The Machine 04:35
8 Seven Devils Florence + The Machine 05:06
9 Heartlines Florence + The Machine 05:01
10 Spectrum Florence + The Machine 05:14
11 All This And Heaven Too Florence + The Machine 04:11
12 Leave My Body Florence + The Machine 04:36
13 Ceremonials Weblink Florence + The Machine 00:00
Ceremonials
Disc 2
Side Track Title Version Title Artist Time Play Clip
1 Remain Nameless Florence + The Machine 04:03
2 Strangeness And Charm Florence + The Machine 05:19
3 Bedroom Hymns Florence + The Machine 03:05
4 What The Water Gave Me Demo Florence + The Machine 03:52
5 Landscape Demo Florence + The Machine 03:58
6 Heartlines Acoustic Florence + The Machine 05:31
7 Shake It Out Acoustic Florence + The Machine 04:15
8 Breaking Down Acoustic Florence + The Machine 03:35

Year
2011

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