Toronto – I’ve been listening to the Florence and the Machines’s debut album Lungs for awhile now, and it’s quite good. In case you don’t know, Florence and the Machines consists of Florence Welsh and some backing musicians, they sing what I guess is just rock music. Theres nothing dancey about most of these tunes, which is quite a deviation from the rest of the female fronted outfits coming out of England lately. “Lungs” was released on July 6th, 2009 and I guess did extremely well in sales, charting at #2 behind Michael Jackson. It also happens to be nominated for a Mercury Prize.
The album is quite radio friendly and is chalked with singles material songs, including 5 singles already out including “Kiss with a Fist”, “Dog Days are Over”, “Rabbit Heart (Raise it UP)” and the most recent one “Drumming Song”. You can see the latest video by going to myspace. I like this album because, well, it’s extremely catchy and Florence has a nice voice. It’s got some bluesy soul kinda flavor to it maybe PJ Harveyish even. The songs more or less follow a traditional rock format, although there are some mystic-ky Bat For Lashes drumbeats in some of the tunes. Either way, the album flows nicely over the 50 or so minutes and there is little in the way of filler.
Overall, a very stellar debut album and Florence and the Machine continues the what I guess can be described as the year of the British ladies in music.
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