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Lungs |  | Artist: Florence + The Machine
Label: Island Records Group
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Rating:  132 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 46 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 001317002
UPC: 602517979406
EAN: 0602517979406
ASIN: B001PB3RU8
Release Date: July 6, 2009
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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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| Customer Reviews:
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 Awful March 9, 2010
Stu_cj
It just goes to show how easily people can be persuaded by the masses that something can be good.
She certainly does have lungs.....but uses them to shout out an awful cacophony akin to fingernails being scratched down a blackboard.
Dull, irritating and very overrated.
Avoid.
 Lungs - Florence and the machine March 8, 2010
Mrs. P. A. Greenstreet (Portsmouth)
I bought this for my husband for valentines day! we,re in our fifties but we both love
Florence she has an amazing voice, I do my ironing to it!
lungs March 6, 2010
J. Mottram (newcastle under lyme uk)
This album is so different and unique.
I think you either like florence and the machine it or hate them judging by some peoples reactions to me buying this album.
I think it is fantastic, love her voice and all the drums in the tracks.
FAB . . buy it!!!
Florence Regina! March 4, 2010
Mr. John F. H. Mcdade (West Sussex England)
OK, I'm a latecomer to all this. I came across Florence on 'Hootenanny' on NYE, and was immediately blown away! That voice, the lyrics! Amazing! As far as I'm concerned this young lady has it all in spades! Do your ears a favour, and let Florence into your life. I've listened to girl singers for years, but Florence is the only one to get the hairs on the back of my neck standing up! Yes, she's a bit Gothic, but is that a crime? She's a true original, and I look forward to the follow up, it's bound to be interesting.
Exciting, original and dark March 4, 2010
munster8 (Cumbria UK)
I am a big fan of You Got The Love, so when I heard someone who clearly was not Candi Staton belting this out I was intrigued and bought the album on an impulse. I am very glad I did. At times Florence reminds me of Siouxsie Sue (another favourite) and she is a breath of fresh air in today's pop world - I agree with the reviewer's comments re a certain Mr S Cowell. Driving drums, at times juxtaposed with delicate harp, great lyrics and an underlying edge to many of the tracks makes for an involving experience, which draws the listener in, not quite sure what to expect next.
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