April 21, 200916 yr Yes please. I need some new quirky female folky jingles. I've worn out all the ones I've got.
April 21, 200916 yr Author Yes please. I need some new quirky female folky jingles. I've worn out all the ones I've got. A lot of the record is very disco/electro...
April 23, 200916 yr Anyone know anything about this supposed EP release on April 28th? :kink: The only place that seems to say anything about it is Wiki A Lot of Love A Lot of Blood? :( US release of 4 tracks already on UK iTunes it would seem Edited April 23, 200916 yr by nickthenoodle
April 23, 200916 yr Author Are you joking? :blink: Nope. There's an album preview somewhere. I'll paste it if you wish?
April 23, 200916 yr Nope. There's an album preview somewhere. I'll paste it if you wish? Yeah please :D I thought she would be going in the same direction of Dog Days. I really like the feel of that song.
April 23, 200916 yr Author Drowned in Sound Preview || Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) WTF? The new single is a complete stylistic volte face, a big boomy disco thing, all bewildering squalls of multilayered, choir-ish background vocals and ultra-glossy synths. Buried someplace deep beneath all of this is the real Florence, who appears to be screaming her lungs out, but is so buried under the insanely busy instrumentation that she sounds totally anonymous, a generic dance diva. It’s so bewildering in terms of its everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach that maybe it needs a few more listens before one should actively accuse it of being bad. But in my notes I wrote ‘like a really gay Sarah McLachlan’. Which may not be a recommendation. Howl More disco. More bombast. Somehow manages to sound like the theme tune to some faintly depressing Saturday teatime show from the Eighties. Occasionally you can make out some words. Seems to be singing something about “bloody feet”. Could be interesting. Can't really tell, I am too distracted by being smacked about the head with a mallet hewn from disco kitsch. I’m Not Calling You a Liar Full on adult contemporary territory with this harp-smeared ballad. Potentially quite affecting were it done in her old style, i.e. stripped arrangement and lungs cranked to 11. Can’t tell because after about two seconds the song’s head is grabbed and shoved underwater in a nauseating sea of multi-tracked Florences. She is her own one woman X-Factor choir. This is horrible. Drumming Song So once upon a time Florence used to bash a stand up drum and it was quite cool, giving a rough, bluesy feel to an essentially pop endeavour. Yeah, f*** that, let’s just go for massively loud processed beats, the sort so bombastic they make you want to snort a yard of coke, beat the $h!t out of tramp, and scream “f*** YES” at the sky. It’s so utterly nerve-jangling you could charitably describe it as some sort of experiment. Very charitably. Again, Florence appears to be singing something quite interesting, but I can’t really hear her. I’m being beaten to death by a twat with a computer. Cosmic Love Sparse, harpy ballad. Or at least that’s how it starts. Am already braced for impact. After mithering around MOR-ishly for a bit, Flo croons out the line ”so I’ll stay in the darkness with you” virtually a capella. Maybe there will be no rapey over-production here? Alas no. It is a bit like the point in the horror film where the victim thinks everything is alright and then their face gets stabbed off. Only instead of a knife, Florence has opted for the blunter instrument of more bloody drums and a kajillion multi-tracked versions of herself, screeching away. Is it possible to take out a restraining order against a chorus? I would hope so. Hurricane Sounds like Dido for about 20 seconds. I want to write ‘it’s a relief from the over-production’, but it’s not, really. And besides you can probably guess what happens after those 20 seconds. IT GETS REALLY LOUD AND PAINFUL. Like Meatloaf, but without the joy. Girl With One Eye ...aaaaaaaaaaaaand the old Florence returns. A bit. This blackly whimsical blues fairytale has barely been tampered with since its original incarnation. You can make out the lyrics and everything. It’s pretty good. Oh, except for the last minute where Flo’n’James realise that they forgot to ruin it with studio excess and promptly do so. Cheers guys. You Got the Love Her Candi Staton cover. Oddly the listening party is deemed over as soon as it starts, the music turned down and the various parties who were earnestly nodding their heads a moment before now chatting away furiously. So DiS can't hear it properly. Not necessarily a bad thing. Soooooooo in conclusion: 1. The full tracklisting includes ‘Kiss With A Fist’ and other older material, meaning the awfulness will probably be watered down a little. 2. It is quite possible that the horrendous bottom end was a byproduct of the sound set up at the playback. 3. You never know, it might be a grower. 4. That all accepted, DiS can definitely, definitely report to you that once-promising artiste Florence Welch has sold her soul to Beelzebub in hopes of becoming an adult contemporary chart star. Lungs is just quirky enough to keep NME onside/allow her to blame everything on James Ford if it doesn’t sell, but that doesn’t detract from the fact she's well on course to spend eternity burning in a lesser circle of hell. Where she’ll hopefully be made to listen to this record, over and over again. Oh, and the cover looks like this: http://images.drownedinsound.com/resized_images/467x467/47211.jpg
April 24, 200916 yr They're really savage with that review. I don't think it's going to be as bad as they make out. I really want something that rivals Dog Days though...that's my only wish for this album.
April 26, 200916 yr powerful cover. I am looking forward to this since the brits, but... electro? really?
April 28, 200916 yr It seems Florence has abandonned her roots :( Shame really, I hope the album is better than this review makes out :P
April 28, 200916 yr Author 'Rabbit Heart' really isn't all that difference from her standard stuff just very messy 'everything but the kitchen sink' sort of instrumentation as the review suggested but it's got all those idiosyncracies I've come to expect from Florence. It's quite captivating and musically challenging. Very interesting, a real step up on 'Dog Days' tbqf :o
April 29, 200916 yr I don't see what's disco about Rabbit Heart at all... I really like the pre-chorus and the chorus, the verses have yet to grow on me though. Is there a CDQ of Rabbit Heart? The one I've got isn't great quality.
May 3, 200916 yr Does anyone has an mp3 of it? I'd be very greatful :D Actually found it myself. I really like it! :o Edited May 3, 200916 yr by I'm Not A Robot
May 7, 200916 yr http://www.authoritydesign.com/florence/ra...ovid_rabbit.htm Normally not worth posting but the video looks interesting :o
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