Why do you like florence and the machine

By mid, the relationship was over, and Welch was distraught. With her friend and musical collaborator, the producer Isa Summers, she holed up in Summers's small London recording studio. They'd both been "messed around by boys", Summers has recalled, "and we'd lock the doors and turn the sound system up and listen to Madonna". They were angry, they were often hungover it was around now Welch woke up as Captain America on a pub roof , and they recorded some career-shaping tracks.

As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo. It was in the lock-up that the name Florence and the Machine was coined Summers was "the Machine", the term now encompassing the shuffling crew of musicians Welch performs with , and it was here the list of commandments went up on the wall, with its misleading number nine: Be a country singer.

Welch was finding a sound for herself at the time, but it wasn't country. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right. Island Records agreed, and signed her up in November By the beginning of , she'd won a Brit award, the critics choice prize given to the new year's most promise-plump artist.

Lungs , released in July, went on to sell 3m copies. On the new album, Ceremonials , one of the standout tracks is an introspective ballad called "Lover to Lover", in which Welch sings about "losing sleep… setting myself up for a fall". Is that what it's like, I ask, producing a smash album and then trying to do it again? Welch, hunched, sipping, nods vigorously. And it can feel like I'm definitely gonna manage to completely fuck it up. This is second-album talk. Because it can go either way at this point; look at the example of her contemporaries.

Adele's second effort, last spring's 21 , confirmed her as music royalty. Duffy's second, the desperately ho-hum Endlessly , seems to have stunted, if not sunk, a promising career. You're never completely happy, otherwise you wouldn't ever make the next one. There's just less expectation. She'll be fine with Ceremonials. My nerves, if any, are that fans of Lungs , that great dossier of discontent, must have been fans of its fury, its tartness.

And on Ceremonials, Welch sounds really quite chuffed. Track one kicks off with a muffled giggle. By track five's foot-tappy harpsichord twangs, the mood is absolutely jaunty. The video for recent single "Shake It Out" even cast a giddy-looking Florence in the middle of a game of blind man's buff. Being really desperate for someone. I was definitely in a more settled place for the second, which was helpful for my concentration because I wasn't, like, crying all the time.

More settled, in part, because she was back with her chap. She and Stuart, the villain of Lungs , patched things up not long after that album was released. Welch has been very funny, in the past, about the "erm, sorry" moments they went through together as her singles trickled out in and We all know what it's like to make incautious comments about an ex, our own or someone else's, and the awkwardness that follows should that break-up be reversed.

Welch's thoughts on the jilting came blasting out every day on the radio. The crumpled print-out is laid on the bar for close study. I'd glimpsed the document in a short film about Welch that her record company released earlier this year; her commandments were pinned up in the background of a segment filmed in Summers's studio, and I captured a fuzzy screen-grab.

Now Welch looks over her old wisdoms, helping me decipher the ones I can't make out. I don't think that meant, like, to grow things in an emergency. I was just obsessed with eating nuts. Number Climb anything … Yeah. My mum was very upset about the stunt I pulled at Reading; she had to watch it from behind the sofa. No more climbing. Number two: Always have a book …". Welch has painted a blurred picture of him during our time together, describing him, variously, as: "Really smart… When I first met him I thought he was terrifying, I was slightly afraid of him… Sharp and witty… Looks good in a tux Doesn't suffer fools.

So at the bar I keep expecting we'll be joined by a young Jeremy Paxman or Horace Rumpole in black tie, if not some awful winged demon swooping in from Piccadilly. But here is he is, a perfectly affable and sweet-seeming chap, three or four years older than Welch, wearing horn-rimmed glasses and the advertised tuxedo.

He kisses her, tells her she looks pretty, transfers some of her things to his pockets and politely wanders out of earshot to stand at the far end of the bar where he will, I guess, be harassed or even beaten up by the now openly hostile waiters. Welch is visibly bucked by his arrival, stepping from sparkly heel to sparkly heel. De… read more. Del Rey is known for embellishing her songs and music videos with an eerily nostalgic vibe heavy on … read more.

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