Tag: Florence & The Machine
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Over the course of Florence + The Machine’s third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, she mentions the Virgin Mary, Persephone, Motown’s Delilah, Jonah and St. Jude, but Catholicism and mythology are very small influences compared to the worst thing in the world, which is what the album is truly about: heartbreak. Rather than…
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One of the many things I love about Florence is her ability to sound both melancholic and hopeful at the same time. With most artists, they just fall into a gray area if they attempt to capture both ends of the happiness/depression scale at the same time. But Florence doesn’t fall into that grey area.…