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Lungs |  | Artist: Florence + The Machine
Label: Island Records Group
Buy New: £4.94
as of 8/9/2010 09:44 CDT details
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 46 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 001317002
UPC: 602517979406
EAN: 0602517979406
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| Tracks:
| • | Dog Days Are Over | | • | Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) | | • | I'm Not Calling You A Liar | | • | Howl | | • | Kiss With A Fist | | • | Girl With One Eye | | • | Drumming Song | | • | Between Two Lungs | | • | Cosmic Love | | • | My Boy Builds Coffins | | • | Hurricane | | • | Blinding | | • | You've Got The Love |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Already the year’s most hyped new artist--not only first in the BBC’s famously unreliable poll of new talent and recipient of a special Brit award devised just for her--Florence Welsh has a lot to live up to, and thankfully the artfully titled and sleeved Lungs justifies the investment. The singles are undeniably the standouts. The impressive "Dog Days Are Over", neurotic and fierce, and the slightly more reserved follow-up "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" lead her debut collection, sometimes overshadowing her other material. Yet the extremes of "Kiss With A Fist", a jokey celebration of mutual domestic violence and noisy guitars that shamelessly steals its melody from the White Stripes’ charming "We Are Gonna Be Friends", and the showstopping, almost unashamedly stagy "Girl With One Eye" show off both her development and an already instantly recognisable voice. The gallows humour of songs like "Between Two Lungs", the daft "My Boy Builds Coffins" and the ferocious "Hurricane Drunk" where she threatens "I’m gonna drink myself to death" backed by a spirited choir of Florences, save her from accusations of self-absorption. The concluding, and hugely loud "Blinding" is all Kate Bush tics over bruising drum patterns. So a straightforward and affectionate cover of the classic Candi Staton and Source club banger "You’ve Got The Love", previously only available online, comes as a welcome chance to get one’s breath back. Much better than an apparent plan to position her as some kind of missing link between PJ Harvey and Avril Lavigne suggested, Lungs is a clever, catchy set, yet unresolved enough to sustain curiosity.--Steve Jelbert
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