Florence and the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful - New Vinyl 2LP
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This is an open box item in good condition. This 2LP set is a customer return from a major retailer that does not appear to have been used more than once or twice. We are selling this in slightly used condition and we have taken great photos for you to see the condition.
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The result is How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, a collection of songs, written and recorded over the course of 2014. Produced by Markus Dravs (Björk, Arcade Fire, Coldplay) with contributions from Paul Epworth, Kid Harpoon and John Hill, the third album by Florence + the Machine is live-sounding, tune-rich, unhinged in all the right places and powerful in all the best ways. In voice and, ultimately, outlook Florence has never sounded better.
"Markus has done a few Arcade Fire albums," Florence tells us, "and he s done Björk s Homogenic, which is a huge record for me. And I felt he had that balance of organic and electronic capabilities, managing those two worlds. And, you know, he s good with big sounds. And I like big sounds. And he s good with trumpets, and I knew I wanted a brass section on this record," she adds of a group of musicians who were arranged by Will Gregory of Goldfrapp.
"And with Markus," Florence continues, clarifying, "I wanted to make something that was big but that had a gentleness to it. That had a warmth, that was rooted. I think that s why we went back more to the live instruments. Something that was band-led almost."
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.
It s alchemy. It s magic. It s the return of Florence + the Machine.
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This is an open box item in good condition. This 2LP set is a customer return from a major retailer that does not appear to have been used more than once or twice. We are selling this in slightly used condition and we have taken great photos for you to see the condition.
FEATURES:
The result is How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, a collection of songs, written and recorded over the course of 2014. Produced by Markus Dravs (Björk, Arcade Fire, Coldplay) with contributions from Paul Epworth, Kid Harpoon and John Hill, the third album by Florence + the Machine is live-sounding, tune-rich, unhinged in all the right places and powerful in all the best ways. In voice and, ultimately, outlook Florence has never sounded better.
"Markus has done a few Arcade Fire albums," Florence tells us, "and he s done Björk s Homogenic, which is a huge record for me. And I felt he had that balance of organic and electronic capabilities, managing those two worlds. And, you know, he s good with big sounds. And I like big sounds. And he s good with trumpets, and I knew I wanted a brass section on this record," she adds of a group of musicians who were arranged by Will Gregory of Goldfrapp.
"And with Markus," Florence continues, clarifying, "I wanted to make something that was big but that had a gentleness to it. That had a warmth, that was rooted. I think that s why we went back more to the live instruments. Something that was band-led almost."
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.
It s alchemy. It s magic. It s the return of Florence + the Machine.
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