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Album: Florence + The Machine - 'How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful'
Member Since: 4/30/2011
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"St Jude" is such a great song. I also love how this album as a whole seems to be less solemn (?) than Ceremonials was. Less is more sometimes, especially in music.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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St. Jude is a new level of perfection, I love it so so so so much, I cannot even begin to describe how much I adore the song I really find the weather theme extremely compelling, especially when one of the last tracks on Ceremonials (deluxe) was Landscape. That song says "she's just like the weather, can't hold her together". And as much as I might be reaching, it somehow feels like some kind of continuity between the records. Ceremonial was about water, about being enveloped and dissolved by something, and it dealt with the idea of escape. Now, HBHBHB is about the other blue, the sky, the seemingly endless canvas, yet, the home of some of the biggest natural disasters. It continues the idea of being enveloped, but this is a more turbulent approach, which I take as a more honest and raw disclosure of her artistry and what she's gone through. I love Flo sooooooo much <3
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maybe I've always been more comfortable in chaos is by far my favorite line
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Member Since: 3/16/2012
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Originally posted by Drowned_World
"St Jude" is such a great song. I also love how this album as a whole seems to be less solemn (?) than Ceremonials was. Less is more sometimes, especially in music.
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can you elaborate? i'm really curious as to what you mean
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Member Since: 5/13/2011
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Originally posted by ahauntingnearu
well so far it looks like we're getting one track a month
February: lead single WKOM
March: promo single #1 SJ
April: promo single #2
May: promo single #3
June: release
most albums have between 2-3 promo singles, so that's what i'm expecting anyway. probably the next two promo singles will be HBHBHB and TE?
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I'm here for this! I hope we don't get any snippets for the other tracks. I want to be completely surprised when I listen to it for the first time.
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Member Since: 3/16/2012
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Originally posted by Kunst
St. Jude is a new level of perfection, I love it so so so so much, I cannot even begin to describe how much I adore the song I really find the weather theme extremely compelling, especially when one of the last tracks on Ceremonials (deluxe) was Landscape. That song says "she's just like the weather, can't hold her together". And as much as I might be reaching, it somehow feels like some kind of continuity between the records. Ceremonial was about water, about being enveloped and dissolved by something, and it dealt with the idea of escape. Now, HBHBHB is about the other blue, the sky, the seemingly endless canvas, yet, the home of some of the biggest natural disasters. It continues the idea of being enveloped, but this is a more turbulent approach, which I take as a more honest and raw disclosure of her artistry and what she's gone through. I love Flo sooooooo much <3
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LOVE your post, omg
yes, you're right, she is constantly proving she is better than literally all of our faves
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Originally posted by Glory And Gore
maybe I've always been more comfortable in chaos is by far my favorite line
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mine is: "I'm learning, so I'm leaving, and even though I'm grieiving, I'm trying to find the meaning. Let loss reveal it." that's one of her best lines ever, but SJ is full of amazing, poetic, and deep words.
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Member Since: 3/16/2012
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Originally posted by BlackJesus
I'm here for this! I hope we don't get any snippets for the other tracks. I want to be completely surprised when I listen to it for the first time.
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this. i'm totally cool with her releasing HBHBHB and TE next, because those and SJ are the three she premiered live. that way, we have 4 tracks, and the rest will be a complete surprise.
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Member Since: 4/30/2011
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Originally posted by ahauntingnearu
can you elaborate? i'm really curious as to what you mean
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The new songs feel way rougher and simpler than the Ceremonials material, which I honestly found to be a bit overproduced and hence even somewhat overwhelming at times. I feel she's going back to a more stripped-down and folky sound and I think that's amazing. I might be in the minority here, but I still prefer Lungs to Ceremonials actually, mainly because the former feels more authentic to me.
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Member Since: 3/16/2012
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Originally posted by Drowned_World
The new songs feel way rougher and simpler than the Ceremonials material, which I honestly found to be a bit overproduced and hence even somewhat overwhelming at times. I feel she's going back to a more stripped-down and folky sound and I think that's amazing. I might be in the minority here, but I still prefer Lungs to Ceremonials actually, mainly because the former feels more authentic to me.
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ok, i totally get what you are saying. i also don't feel you are in the minority of liking lungs more; whole it's basically universally loved in her fanbase, i think the general consensus is that fans prefer lungs to ceremonials. i am the opposite: i love both albums to death, but i think ceremonials is a masterpiece.
anyway, you're right. i said before that the vocals are all crystal clear on this album, just like on Lungs, whereas on Ceremonials they were echoey, reverbed, and chambery. which i think worked for that album, but it's nice to see her changing it up. the thing i do miss, i must say, is hearing the layered, harmony-filled vocals of Ceremonials. hopefully we get some more of that from the other tracks
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Member Since: 4/15/2011
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St. Jude is so so good!
I like What Kind Of Man alot, especially the intro but it hasn't really been something I was obsessed with or anything.
St. Jude however, is so beautiful and well done. Cannot wait for the album.
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Member Since: 8/24/2011
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I can't believe St Jude is slaying my soul right now. I couldn't get into that song till now.
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two of my friends didn't like it, but now they love SJ. said it has amazing lyrics
can ya'll imagine how incredible HBHBHB full is going to sound? the quiet intro with minimal guitar strumming, the strings, the brass, the chorus that keeps building
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Today was going in the bus, and it was raining, and then I played St. Jude on my phone. And seeing the wind blow violently and the water fall down mercilessly, it truly clicked on me. The storm is something else. Of course she refers to it as a metaphor for a turbulent and even catastrophic life experience. And then I realized that a storm does not hurt you with intent, it hurts because of its nature, and that's how it works in real life, some of the deepest pain we feel, occurs without intent, and it hurts deeper because we are afraid to overcome it. Like people using an umbrella while walking under the rain. The umbrella barely protects them actually, and the wind can rendered it useless if strong enough. They don't suffer much less than somebody walking without an umbrella. THAT'S what the storm does, it destroys, but it also shapes you. But it only can shape you if you let it break u and hit you.St. Jude is all about that, it's about the storms we go through, but that we need to go through despite the hurt they cause. I believe that's the concept she's going for with this album. I don't know if I'm expressing myself correctly, but yeah, this is how I see the concept of the album
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Originally posted by Kunst
Today was going in the bus, and it was raining, and then I played St. Jude on my phone. And seeing the wind blow violently and the water fall down mercilessly, it truly clicked on me. The storm is something else. Of course she refers to it as a metaphor for a turbulent and even catastrophic life experience. And then I realized that a storm does not hurt you with intent, it hurts because of its nature, and that's how it works in real life, some of the deepest pain we feel, occurs without intent, and it hurts deeper because we are afraid to overcome it. Like people using an umbrella while walking under the rain. The umbrella barely protects them actually, and the wind can rendered it useless if strong enough. They don't suffer much less than somebody walking without an umbrella. THAT'S what the storm does, it destroys, but it also shapes you. But it only can shape you if you let it break u and hit you.St. Jude is all about that, it's about the storms we go through, but that we need to go through despite the hurt they cause. I believe that's the concept she's going for with this album. I don't know if I'm expressing myself correctly, but yeah, this is how I see the concept of the album
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You are amazing
I love your interpretation so much, it's so interesting. Can't wait to hear Various Storms & Saints now
Love how all her songs are so open to interpretation and full of references to so many things.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Florence 's music makes me reflect sooo much. I remember spending a night think over Never Let Me Go when I first heard Ceremonials, and it was actually a very cathartic thought process. I can't wait to digest this new album
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by ahauntingnearu
You are amazing
I love your interpretation so much, it's so interesting. Can't wait to hear Various Storms & Saints now
Love how all her songs are so open to interpretation and full of references to so many things.
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OMG thank you my reflections are usually all over the place because I fail to word myself properly. But glad you grasped the concept
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Member Since: 2/2/2014
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I can't stop listening to How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
GOD, that song is insane It's a What The Water Gave Me of the album
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Member Since: 3/16/2012
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SJ will become one of my favorite Florence songs. It's so beautiful.
Poetic goddess
The thirst for this album is real. Curious for Delilah and Ship To Wreck most of all
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Member Since: 4/20/2012
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Maybe I've always been more comfortable in chaos.
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Member Since: 8/27/2011
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Originally posted by RideOrDie
Maybe I've always been more comfortable in chaos.
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I thought she said kale at first
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