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Originally posted by DevonRoars
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I guess although I’ve always dealt in fantasy and metaphor when I came to writing, that meant the songs this time were dealing much more in reality. Ceremonials was so fixated on death and water, and the idea of escape or transcendence through death, but the new album became about trying to learn how live, and how to love in the world rather than trying to escape from it. Which is frightening because I’m not hiding behind anything but it felt like something I had to do.
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http://pitchfork.com/news/58445-flor...-of-man-video/
The album was produced by Markus Dravs (Björk, Arcade Fire) and features arrangements from Goldfrapp's Will Gregory. Paul Epworth, Kid Harpoon, and John Hill also worked on the album.
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A prime example is the future Florence classic “Ship To Wreck:” it opens the album, and showcases Florence and Dravs’ enthusiasm for reframing her distinctive voice.
“Ship To Wreck” was written with Kid Harpoon, the London-based songwriter/producer with whom she’d written Ceremonials’ Grammy-nominated “Shake It Out”, during a month-long creative furlough in Los Angeles that also yielded first single “What Kind Of Man”: a full-force ear-pinning anthem of uplifting defiance.
Kid Harpoon is one of a clutch of old collaborator friends who reunited to help marshal these most personal of songs. Ceremonials producer Paul Epworth helped create the album closing psychedelic blues explosion “Mother,” while the inner-circle of her nearest and dearest was rounded out by her bandmate and long-time studio right-hand-woman Isa Summers, with whom she wrote the epic title track.
“‘How Big How Blue How Beautiful’ was the first song I wrote for this record, literally as I just came off tour,” she explains, “and then I went off and had this incredibly chaotic year, and that all went into the record. But in the end, the feeling of How Big How Blue is what I came back to.
“The trumpets at the end of that song—that’s what love feels like to me. An endless brass section that goes off into space. And it takes you with it. You’re so up there. And that’s what music feels like to me. You want it just to pour out endlessly, and it’s the most amazing feeling.”
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http://www.republicrecords.com/absol.../#.VN01VFPN84Q
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