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Ceremonials

Ceremonials

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Not audiophile quality, but without a doubt better than the digital versions, which are major loudness war victims (DR 4-6).

At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, the album received a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album, while " Shake It Out" was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.The album's sound is described as baroque pop, [1] art pop, [2] indie pop, [3] neo soul, [4] power pop [5] and gothic pop. In June 2011, Epworth told BBC 6 Music that the album would probably be finished "by the end of July" and described the sound as "a lot less indie and lot more soulful".

There is a change of tempo from their previous album, but this just adds a new dimension and enjoyment for the listener.Occasionally the lyrics themselves can be slightly hackneyed, at other points brilliantly mysterious yet meaningful. AllMusic critic James Christopher Monger wrote, "Bigger and bolder than 2009's excellent Lungs, Ceremonials rolls in like fog over the Thames, doling out a heavy-handed mix of Brit-pop-infused neo-soul anthems and lush, movie trailer-ready ballads that fuse the bluesy, electro-despair of Adele with the ornate, gothic melodrama of Kate Bush and Floodland-era Sisters of Mercy. Rob Harvilla of Spin described Welch as "a bloodied, bloodying songbird in a gilded cage of immaculately crafted, slow-burn, chest-beating empowerment anthems, gripping steel bars that her elegantly volcanic voice could shred at any moment", adding, "She's so much better than her material that her material is rendered immaterial.

This album has such a wonderful sound, full of life and with a depth of quality that is hard to come across. The album earned the band nominations for British Female Solo Artist and MasterCard British Album of the Year at the 2012 Brit Awards. As does the similarly barreling "No Light, No Light", which is one of the few tracks where Welch sets aside her usual flighty, dreamy, goth-y lyrical go-to's-- ghosts, graveyards, devils, angels, myths, drowning-- for something a bit more personal. As Welch mournfully sings of being laid down with "pockets full of stones" before the track swells to a choir-bolstered climax of Emily Brontë ’n’ Kate Bush proportions, images of her as John William Waterhouse’s doomed, red-headed Ophelia can’t help but swim before your eyes. Standing out immediately, at least initially, is "No Light, No Light" a track that explodes into life after a brief introduction and does not let up.

To promote the album, Florence and the Machine embarked on their second worldwide tour titled the Ceremonials Tour on 13 October 2011. The Band Perry, blink-182, Christina Perri, Florence + The Machine, Gym Class Heroes, LMFAO, OneRepublic, Nicki Minaj, Taio Cruz And will. The band performed at the Los Angeles portion of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest, [33] which was broadcast live on 31 December on ABC. Every single song has meaning and leaves you with the refreshing sense that just like us Florence Welch's life experience isn't straight forward. Pitchfork 's Ryan Dombal argued, "Instead of Lungs' largely charming yet discombobulating diversity, Ceremonials suffers from a repetitiveness that's akin to looking at a skyline filled with 100-story behemoths lined-up one after the other, blocking out everything but their own size.

The tour included numerous performances at music festivals as that is Welch's favourite way to perform live.

In a mixed review, Slant Magazine 's Matthew Cole wrote that "[t]he first four tracks of Ceremonials are essentially flawless", but felt that the album "can't help but get weaker as it continues, a fact which owes less to the quality of the songwriting than to the album's length [. Barry Nicolson of NME noted that "by taking what worked about Lungs and amplifying those qualities to a natural, satisfying conclusion, Florence has made a near-great pop record that should afford her the creative freedom to do whatever the hell she wants next time around. Some people have complained about the sound quality of the download, but the sound on the two CDs is excellent and sound fine transferred to my MP3. To me, this is a really good way to listen to the album, but there are definitely ways the mastering could improve.



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