Florence + The Machine is one of my favorite musical acts of all-time. Somehow…somehow…this one slipped through the cracks? I have no memory of hearing it before. Apparently this song was used for a Snow White movie?! Where in the heck was I in 2011? What was I paying attention to? I feel like I just got slapped in the face. This song HITS.
Florence Welch’s voice contains one of the biggest ranges I’ve ever heard. She can go so deep she croaks and sounds like she’s got gravel in her throat, and the very next second she’s hitting some sort of angelic high-note. She’s a Valkyrie screaming a battle cry at the beginning of this song.
Epic is the only word I can think of to describe it. Four minutes and eight seconds of epic. First off, they used every kind of instrument in the world in the song. You can hear it all in this one. Pretty incredible technical achievement if you ask me.
Then all of a sudden we have this choir part?! With this crazy bassline or synth? Who produces stuff like this? Is this all just in that person’s head? Is this how Florence hears songs when she writes them? Honestly no matter which way it happens, it sounds different than anything else.
Florence really is incomparable. I’m so excited to see what her and Taylor Swift are cooking up for The Tortured Poets Department!
“I was looking for a breath of life, for a little touch of heavenly light, but all the choirs in my head say, no, to get a dream of life again, a little vision of the start at the end, but all the choirs in my head say, no, but I needed one more touch, another taste of heavenly rush, and I believe, I believe it so“
I’ve listened to it like ten times in a row. It’s exhilarating. Enjoy!
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