Florence and the Machine

I have no idea what took me so long to put this band on here. They were downloaded by chance, as in with an indie/alternative playlist. AMAZING. They're from the U.K., I know... everyone awesome comes from there! They're fronted by Florence Welch (perhaps the heiress of the Welch's Juice fortune?) and she is backed by "other musicians that make up her band." Boy oh boy wouldn't you love to be one of those other musicians?!

I'm hoping that the people that are in the picture above are actually in the band, as in I love the guy that has that much food in his mouth... hahaha, too funny. I'm thinking it's a wrap or bread or something... any other guesses?

Anyway her voice, is SO COOL. It's different and the music/lyrics is so different too. For all of the dubstep junkie/techno junkies as well, because she's from the UK there are a lot of dubstep or techno remixes to her songs. Her songs range are mostly crazy upbeat ones that you can dance to, or pretend to make a music video to... kind of like this one, so crazy. And again... ok I'm obsessed with her hair... crazy red and the dance in it is so neat!!! Or not neat... but rather cool, it's just a cool video.

I also have reason to believe that she is a fellow Amazon, so that adds to her cool factor as well.

Anyway, she started in 2007 and has basically exploded over in London since then. It could have something to do with her hair... but then not everyone is as easily persuaded as I am, so it is actually probably because of her voice and talent. ALSO apparently she is phenomenal live, though she's never come to Canada so I don't know this first hand!

NOW, her latest album is called Lungs. It was released in 2009 and received great reviews AND it's no wonder. It's awesome!!!!! It has everything you could want! Mellow, dance-y, love-y, boys suck-y... just so good!! Not only is Drumming Song on this album, but Kiss With a Fist, which was featured on the Jennifer's Body Soundtrack AND Dog Days Are Over, which made it huge in the UK.

Because I'm studying and this was my study break and I should probably get back to studying, I'll make this short.

SONGS TO DOWNLOAD

Drumming Song

Kiss With a Fist

Dog Days Are Over

I'm Not Calling You a Liar

Between Two Lungs

Drumming Song... ok awesome, the drums in it are so cool. And the lyrics are also so neat and catchy annnndd ya, seriously make your own music video with this, just maybe make sure no one is home to catch you dancing like an idiot.

Kiss With a Fist... alright, so NOT backing the moral of this song. But again it's good, and catchy and makes me kind of think of Zooey Deschanel, for some weird reason.

Dog Days Are Over... a cute kind of song, again catchy and I love it.

I'm Not Calling You a Liar... slower and just as good as the other ones, the beginning her voice just rings out and then the instruments come in. So good.

Between Two Lungs... again slowerish. But soooo good and it's easy to fall asleep to, and nice as well.

Alright SO ya this is not very long and less descriptive and there is MUCH less commentary than there usually is... but unfortunately studying overrules things... school sucks.

But soon, Alice Cooper's song will ring through my apartment. SCHOOOOOOOOLLLLSSSSS OUT FOR SUMMER!