Altsounds - FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE RELEASES HER ALBUM, LUNGS, JULY 6th 2009

After releasing just two limited singles (‘Kiss With A Fist’ and ‘Dog Days Are Over’) the magnetic Florence & The Machine has built up a formidable following of fans and critics alike, even winning this years highly prestigious Critics Choice BRIT Award. Now with the impressive debut album ‘Lungs’ Florence Welch looks set to exceed all hype and expectation, blowing her contemporaries out of the water.

An insight into why the wonderful world of 22 year old Florence has mesmerized more than a few, the long player is an intoxicating mix of delicate fragility, dark humour and twisted Tim Burton style fairy-tales. Production duties come care of Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Jack Penate, Maximo Park), James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, The Klaxons, Last Shadow Puppets) and Steve Mackay (Pulp, M.I.A), who were all eager to work with the young newcomer.

From the live favourite ‘You’ve Got The Love’ to the raw blues tinged ‘Girl With One Eye’ to the beautifully painful ‘Between Two Lungs’, the album is crammed with crowd pleasers. Also boasting fresh tracks like new single ‘Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)’, ‘Drumming’ - with its epic denseness, the terrifyingly brilliant ‘Howl’ and ‘Hurricane Drunk’ with it’s paradoxical charms of heartbreak, love and loss, ‘Lungs’ promises to leave us wanting more of the insanely captivating Florence Welch.

Florence & The Machine release single ‘Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)’ June 22nd on Island Records.

TRACKLISTING:
1. Dog Days Are Over
2. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
3. I’m Not Calling You A Liar
4. Howl
5. Kiss With A Fist
6. Girl With One Eye
7. Drumming
8. Between Two Lungs
9. Cosmic Love
10. My Boys Builds Coffins
11. Hurricane Drunk
12. Blinding
Bonus: You’ve Got The Love

UK LIVE DATES

May
22nd – 02 Academy, Birmingham
27th – Bloomsbury Ballroom, London
28th – Bloomsbury Ballroom, London
Acoustic set at Phonica as part of Island 50th
31st – Oran Mor, Glasgow

June
1st – St Phillips Church, Manchester
2nd - Concorde 2, Brighton
21st – Hurricane, Germany
26th – Blur support at Manchester M.E.N Arena
27th – Glastonbury (John Peel Stage)

July
3rd – Blur support at Hyde Park, London
4th – Hop Garden, Kent
5th – Eurockness, France
11th – T in park, Scotland
12th – Oxygen, Ireland
18th – Lovebox, London