Florence And The Machine Lungs Vinyl Limited Edition
Boyan Atanaschev
FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - LUNGS CD BOX-SET (LIMITED EDITION). Here we have a rare 2009 UK numbered limited (No: 092/200) edition deluxe case bound box designed by Faye Sawyer, working exclusively with Florence. The box contains the special edition 'Lungs' 20-track 2-CD album set. The discs are housed inside a brown nappa leather bag, which is lined with the very curtain used in the album cover, with a merino sheepskin front panel and a lung embossed tag. The box also contains two album art covered envelopes that offer totally unique hand drawn artwork by Florence and a personal handwritten letter. The bespoke jewel box is made from maroon-coloured grained Bordeaux recycled leather and the inner lining made from purple suede flocking with custom made Lungs mirror to lid. The chest measures 7" x 5" x 4" and is housed in its original custom maroon cardboard box. A beautifully created item to treasure. Set is in superb Ex+/ Like New condition).
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In honor of its tenth anniversary, Florence + the Machine have just announced a special release of their debut album Lungs, available on pink vinyl, cassette, or as a limited edition box set, which will contain a bonus LP of previously unreleased tracks, b-sides, and rarities.
The news takes us back to our 2010 in-studio session with Florence + the Machine when they were just starting out. Watch a stripped-down set of singles off Lungs below with Florence joined by Tom Monger on harp and Rob Ackroyd on guitar. The Lungs 10th anniversary edition will be out August 16th via Island Records.
On July 3, 2009 the world was officially introduced to Florence + The Machine by way of the band's debut album Lungs. In the decade that's followed, the world has promptly fallen in love with the English sextet as they released four albums of ethereal folk rock. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the record that started it all, Florence Welch and company announced that they'd be re-releasing their breakthrough album as a limited edition box set and colored vinyl.
Lungs received generally positive reviews from music critics, with Welch drawing comparisons to the likes of Kate Bush and Fiona Apple. It appeared on several year-end critics' lists in late 2009. The album won the award for British Album of the Year at the Brit Awards. Commercially, Lungs reached number one in Poland and the United Kingdom, and number 14 in the US Billboard 200, selling over 3 million copies worldwide.
The album was supported by six singles, all of which were supplemented by accompanying music videos. "Kiss with a Fist" peaked at 51 in the United Kingdom while "Dog Days Are Over" and "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" also charted in Australia and Belgium. Three further singles followed the release of the album, "Drumming Song", a cover of the song "You've Got the Love", and "Cosmic Love". Their cover of the Source and Candi Staton song became the group's first top-10 entry. To promote the album, Florence and the Machine embarked on the Lungs Tour between 2008 and 2011. A live album from this concert was released in 2010, titled Live at the Wiltern.
Prior to recording Lungs, Florence Welch had considered or attempted several different projects in the music industry, including an interest in becoming a country singer, recording folk songs she had written, and collaborating with Razorlight's frontman Johnny Borrell, but ultimately she was unsatisfied with those endeavors.[4] Welch and Borrell wrote several songs together.[citation needed] In 2007, Welch fronted the hip hop-influenced group Ashok, recording an early version of "Kiss with a Fist", titled "Happy Slap", for their debut studio album, Plans.[4][5]
It was not until Welch began writing and recording with childhood friend Isabella Summers at Antenna Studios in London that Welch crafted a sound she wanted to develop further.[6] Distraught but also inspired from a recently failed relationship, Welch recorded with "enthusiasm over skills", stating, "I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo."[4] For a brief while, Welch and Summers performed as a duo called Florence Robot/Isa Machine in small London venues.[7] Over the coming months, Robert Ackroyd (guitar, backing vocals), Chris Hayden (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Mark Saunders (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Tom Monger (harp) were recruited to form a band, renamed Florence and the Machine.[8] In November 2008, Welch signed a recording contract with Island Records.[4] Prior to recording the album, Welch spent a long time honing her sound while working with guitarists, intent on "[making] it into something that was a wave of sound that would envelop, something that was soaring, slightly church-like and then-doomlike."[9]
The imagery of Lungs, featuring a style derived from the Ante-Donatello Brotherhood, was handled by two of Welch's friends: photographer Tom Beard and art director Tabitha Denholm, who are partners at the studio Partizan. Denholm also plays with the band's manager Mairead Nash in the DJ duo Queens of Noize.[22] For the album cover, Denholm created a concept built around a pair of lungs worn visibly on Welch's chest. Welch's personal stylist Aldene Johnson handled the wardrobe, "an Emma Cook chain dress that was in a kind of 1920s style",[23] while Orlando Weeks, an art student and frontman of the band the Maccabees, built the prosthetic lungs, which he intended to give "a Victoriana, industrial punchbag kind of look".[24]
Florence and the Machine announced via their website on 24 September 2010 that Lungs would be re-released on 15 November as a two-disc package titled Between Two Lungs. The reissue features new sleeve art, liner notes by Welch, and a 12-track bonus disc including live versions, remixes, Welch's mashup collaboration with Dizzee Rascal, "You Got the Dirtee Love", and "Heavy in Your Arms", which was released as a single from the soundtrack to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010).[25] The live recordings are taken from the band's performance at the 2010 iTunes Festival, most of which were not previously available on the band's iTunes Festival: London 2010 EP.
On 27 February 2011, Lungs: The B-Sides was released exclusively in the United States to digital music retailers such as the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3.[26][2] This was followed by the release of a deluxe edition of Lungs in the US on 26 April 2011, featuring all 11 tracks from Lungs: The B-Sides on a bonus disc to accompany the original 13-track album.[27] On 3 July 2019, ten years after the original release of the album, the band announced that a limited "tenth anniversary edition" was available for pre-order.[28] It was released digitally on 16 August,[29] with the LPs and cassettes released the same day. An exclusive box set was released on 4 October.[30] The box set comprises the original LP; a second LP with "three previously unreleased demo tracks, a rare acoustic version of "My Boy Builds Coffins", a cover of the Beatles' "Oh! Darling" Live at Abbey Road, and a number of B sides [and] rarities."[31] It also includes "postcards and inserts, showcasing previously unseen images from the Lungs era" chosen by Welch herself.[31][32]
"Dog Days Are Over" was released on 1 December 2008 as the album's second single. While the 2010 reissue charted higher, the 2008 release only reached number 89 on the UK Singles Chart.[33]The song was used in the theatrical trailer for the 2010 film Eat Pray Love, starring Julia Roberts.[34] The Yeasayer remix of "Dog Days Are Over", which is included on Between Two Lungs, was released on 12 October 2010 on iTunes.[35]
"Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" was released as the third single from the album on 22 June 2009, peaking at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.[33] "Drumming Song" was released as the album's fourth single on 7 September 2009, reaching number 54 in the UK.[33]
"You've Got the Love" was the fifth single to be released from the album, and reached a new peak of number five on the UK Singles Chart in January 2010.[33] The band had recorded a version of this the Source song which had been a live staple and issued it as a B-side to "Dog Days Are Over", but the success of the previous singles made Island request "You've Got the Love" as a single. Welch went on to record new vocal takes with engineer Cenzo Townshend, replacing the first two verses and the first chorus. Townshend also remixed the bass and drums to be "a bit harder and the bottom end a bit heavier."[14] Florence and the Machine's duet with rapper Dizzee Rascal at the 2010 Brit Awards on 16 February 2010, a mashup of "You've Got the Love" and Dizzee Rascal's "Dirtee Cash" titled "You Got the Dirtee Love", was released on iTunes the day after the ceremony.[36][37] "You Got the Dirtee Love" reached number two on the UK chart.[33]
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