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Lungs é o primeiro álbum de estúdio da banda indie rock britânica Florence and the Machine (ou Florence + the Machine). O álbum estreou no nº 2 do UK Albums Chart (parada que contabiliza os álbuns mais vendidos no Reino Unido), apenas atrás de Michael Jackson.
Semanas mais tarde a banda de Florence Welch assistiu a um incremento significativo nas vendas do seu álbum, alcançando o nº1 no Reino Unido. O álbum alcançou o top 10 em vários países da Europa, assim como o nº3 na Austrália e o nº 14 nos EUA (após uma espetacular apresentação do single Dog Days Are Over no MTV Video Music Awards de 2010).
Lungs criou diversas pérolas ao longo de seu reconhecimento: "Dog Days Are Over", "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)", "Kiss With A Fist", "Between Two Lungs", "Cosmic Love", "My Boy Builds Coffins", "You've Got The Love" e a faixa de sua reedição, "Heavy in Your Arms", que está na trilha sonora de Eclipse (da saga Crepúsculo).
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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock since the beginning of the year, you’ll be aware of Florence and the Machine. Before even releasing an album, the first lady and her revolving band have been championed by BBC Introducing, invited to play Glastonbury and support Blur at Hyde Park, and won the Critic's Choice Award at this year’s BRITs. Now they're being tipped for Mercury Prize glory. How can an album possibly live up to the pressure of all that expectation? I don't quite know… but it does by the gallon.
Florence Welch's distinctive voice intertwines beautifully with harps, strings and drums as she sings her inimitable 'soul inspired indie' and 'Tim Burton-style fairytales'. The gothic pop of Lungs has been excellently produced by a crack team - Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Jack Penate, Maximo Park), James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons, Last Shadow Puppets) and Steve Mackey (Pulp, M.I.A.).
There's so much brilliant stuff it's difficult to know where to begin. The soaring crescendo of new single Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up), the achingly beautiful Howl and a breathtaking cover of The Source classic You Got The Love. Drumming is a fabulous nail-on-the-head song about what it feels like to be in love.
There are touches of Mama Cass on happy clappy debut single Dogs Days Are Over and at the other end of the energy scale, the twinkly loveliness of Hurricane Drunk. The low points are few – perhaps that I'm Not Calling You A Liar falls a bit flat between choruses, and the lyrics to Girl With One Eye are closer to disturbing than kooky. But mostly it's sheer gleeful bliss listening to Lungs.
Florence says music is, ''at best a kind of magic that lifts you up and takes you somewhere else''. With vocals building from breathy almost-nothings to soaring, arching crescendos and the accompanying harps, strings, hopes and dreams, this album takes you somewhere you'll never want to come back from. When news gets out that she writes her best stuff, ''when drunk or hungover'', Florence's transition from unknown to British classic will be complete.
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