Ceremonials [CD]

"It's certainly a very different thing this time around: making an album that you know a lot of people are anticipating" reflects Florence; "...but I've just tried to do what I would've done anyway. This one is a real attempt to just make exactly the kind of music I want to hear: dramatic and really huge and kind of spooky. I want it more than anything to have an overwhelming effect on the listener: I want it to make people feel something." Feel something you irrefutably will. Far from being one of those sell-out-and-go-pop second records that so many promising new artists settle for, Ceremonials is a wholly more experimental and challenging body of work. "I wanted to push the aggression of the sound" Florence says; "Bigger drums, bigger bass sounds: as big and as powerful as we could go.