For the band’s second album, Ceremonials, Florence + the Machine have joined forces once again with fellow Brit and award-winning producer Paul Epworth. The album sounds similar in many ways to the ...

Florence Welch, the drama queen. "Over-the-top" is a suitable way to describe what she does with the songs on "Ceremonials," her second album that shows no signs of a sophomore slump. By Jillian Mapes ...

The dog days are over for Florence Welch, so it's onto a different animal: this behemoth of supersized songs that sound big enough to swallow the world whole. Eternal happiness is still her ...

Florence and the machine’s best song to date is “Kiss With a Fist.” We are not arguing here. A blunt, cheerful ode to the romantic joys of mutually indulged domestic violence, the track is the ...

Few bands manage an epic sophomore album. And by epic, we do indeed mean epic—as in biblical—which leaves Florence + the Machine’s Ceremonials virtually peerless. The 12-track release is a musical ...

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Florence Welch doesn’t dance. She writhes. The striking auburn-haired singer who fronts Florence + the Machine likes to perform in long, robe-like gowns and sing sweeping ballads full of majestic ...

Try not to think too hard about this second album from Florence Welch. Just dive right in and let the overwrought, multilayered vocals wash over you Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

One day a critically acclaimed, commercially successful pop artist will aspire to make a record that sounds small. In a room with perfect acoustics a minimal cohort of musicians will lay down a set of ...

The mood of Florence Welch's second album is set by the cover, on which Welch appears to be posing for Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The mood of the disc inside, too, is decidedly pre-Raphaelite: a gothic ...