BRIT Awards 2012

F+TM have been nominated for 'Best Female' and 'Best British Album'. It has also been confirmed that F+TM will be performing at the ceremony. Paul Epworth has also been nominated for 'Best Producer'.

Amazon Top 100 of 2011

Ceremonials has been placed at number 13 in Amazon's Top 100 Albums of 2011, it was also Amazon's 71st Best Selling Album. What The Water Gave Me has been placed at number 14 in Amazon's Top 100 Songs of 2011 and Shake It Out was placed at 99.

Florence Welch admits she loses herself in her music. She also loses her manager’s cell phone often, apparently by Time Out Chicago

When she answers my call, Florence Welch seems to be working in a call center. A din of ringing phones, chattering workers and knocking doors sounds more like corporate headquarters than a New York hotel room. In a way, it is. The moniker Florence + the Machine has become surprisingly prescient for the 25-year-old. Following her smash single “Dog Days Are Over,” the wailer’s aptly titled debut, 2009’s Lungs, sold millions worldwide. Her June gig at the Aragon sold out in a heartbeat. And the redhead just released a cathedral of a sophomore album, the hallelujah-heavy and celebratory Ceremonials. The lush new songs are slow builds. In conversation, however, the bubbly Brit talks a mile a minute.

Sleep figures heavily on Ceremonials. One song begins, “I’ve been losing sleep.” Are you exhausted?
I’ve always been kind of, I don’t know… [To someone in the room] Yeah, I can’t find it here.… I’m a light sleeper. I’ve never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don’t know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places. I’m always terrified of the idea that there’s something in there with you, be it your fears or an actual apparition.

Has the anxiety grown with fame?
I’ve actually been okay. I was really bad for a while. Doing the first record was bad. This one has been easier. I don’t know whether it’s because I’ve been growing up or things are becoming more settled in my head.

The new album is loaded with gospel choirs and church organs. Are you spiritual, or is that just a sound you gravitate toward?
That has to do with music being a catharsis, something to take you out of yourself and something that can maybe absolve you. I had that moment of just being so tired of myself and these patterns of behavior I’ve fallen into, and I think everyone can be quite hard on themselves, and music takes that out of you, and it’s that moment of clarity that everyone is looking for, where you don’t have a future or past. I feel things in quite an intense way. I’m not actually the most intense person. My ex-boyfriend, this new girl was working with him, and she was like, oh, my God, you go out with Florence, wow, God, she must be really intense, because, you know, the music’s so intense. I understand why people might think that. But he was like, no, actually she’s pretty mellow. But if I feel something, be it love, be it panic, be it joy, be it fear, I feel it in a really intense way. It takes over me, and I can’t control it.

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'My heart was going crazy'

Backstage after Florence and the Machine's sold-out gig to launch their new album, Ceremonials, at London's Hackney Empire, Florence Welch talks about her hopes for the record plus what Nick Clegg has to do to win her affections …

You can read a full interview with Florence in this Sunday's Observer

Hackney Empire

Set list

Only if for a night
What the water gave me
Heartlines
Cosmic love
Breaking down (interlude)
Lover to lover 
Leave my body
Dog days are over
Shake it out
Rabbit Heart (raise it up)
Spectrum
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Never let me go (w/ Kid Harpoon)
No light, no light

Florence & The Machine Share No Light, No Light Single Details + Heartlines, No Light, No Light + Spectrum (Web Rips)

Yesterday, Florence & The Machine announced on Twitter that she was in the process of shooting the video for her next single No Light, No Light.
Today, web rips of No Light, No Light, Heartlines, Spectrum have surfaced. We first got to hear these songs during her live performance at the Creators Project in Brooklyn last weekend.Check out the review and videos here.
Do yourselves a favor and get your hands on Ceremonials when it is released on October 31st. I’m pretty certain it’s gonna end up in my top ten albums of the years based on the songs we have heard, I can’t wait to hear more!

FROM HARD CANDY MUSIC

SPECTRUM
Spectrumt by natalietrew

NO LIGHT, NO LIGHT


HEARTLINES
Heartlines by natalietrew


BEDROOM HYMNS
15 Bedroom Hymns by natalietrew

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Creators Project Festival

Last night F+TM performed Creators Project Festival in New York, they performed tracks from the upcoming album 'Ceremonials' as well as other hits from 'Lungs'. Here are some clips (all credit to @carinacontreras unless stated otherwise) of the debuted to the general public last night from the new album:

Spectrum


Never Let Me Go


Heartlines


If Only For A Night (Clip by 18vbarbosa)


No Light, No Light (Clip by 18vbarbosa)

Channel 4 and F+TM

To accompany a range of on-air programme commissions, and online editorial content around the release of Florence + the Machine's eagerly awaited second album - Channel4.com will host a microsite streaming the artist's new album online, a full four days ahead of its UK wide release; following a deal negotiated by MediaCom, between Channel 4 and Universal Music.

The album streaming is planned in support of a range of Channel 4 content - including an exclusive recording of a special intimate gig at the Hackney Empire, which will be recorded later this month, and will air in early November on Channel 4. Florence + The Machine: The Ceremonial from Hackney Empire was commissioned by Head of T4 and Music, Neil McCallum. T4 will air an extended Florence + The Machine interview with Nick Grimshaw, and Channel4.com will host two Florence +The Machine videos, What The Water Gave Me and Shake It Out, alongside a specially commissioned, bespoke commentary from the artist herself, talking through each track, in her own words.

In the first partnership of its kind between a music label, and a terrestrial broadcaster, the second album from the multi-award winning artist will be exclusively available and streamed live in full on Channel4.com for four days prior to its UK wide release on October 31st.

The microsite will be live from October 25th, with a host a range of Florence + the Machine content. The exclusive album streaming will go live from October 27th and fans who register for, and log in to Channel4.com will be able hear tracks first, and free of charge until October 30th..

Preview Ceremonials

Click here to listen to previews on Amazon or listen below!



Live previews from the Luv Luv Luv Lauch:

Ceremonials

F+TM next album will be named 'Ceremonials'.

Track-listing:
01 - Only If for a Night
02 - Shake It Out
03 - What the Water Gave Me
04 - Never Let Me Go
05 - Breaking Down
06 - Lover to Lover
07 - No Light, No Light
08 - Seven Devils
09 - Heartlines
10 - Spectrum
11 - All This and Heaven Too
12 - Leave My Body
Deluxe Track-listing:
13 - Remain Nameless
14 - Strangeness & Charm
15 - Bedroom Hymns
16 - What the Water Gave Me (Demo)
17 - Landscape (Demo)
18 - Heartlines (Acoustic Version)
19 - Shake It Out (Acoustic Version)
20 - Breaking Down (Acoustic Version)

You can also now pre-order the album from iTunes here with the What The Water Gave Me video!

"Years and years ago, I saw an art exhibition and there was this video art piece called 'Ceremonials.' It was done in the 70s and was done in Super-8 and it's kind of Coquette-sy--there's that documentary called Coquette about this 70s theatre troup that lives in San Francisco and I came kind of obsessed with it.

"This video piece is all about these processions and it's kind of colour based and everyone's wearing masks and there's all kinds of different colours...coloured balloons...and strange ceremonies going on.

"That word--ceremonies--got stuck in my head. And then went it came to this album which was influenced by hymns and poems and sounds of church bells. There's kind a lot of ceremonial influences and aspects to it, so it seemed to fit."

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