How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015)

The much anticipated third studio long-player from Florence Welch and her mechanically inclined cohorts, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful arrives after a period of recalibration for the spirited and soulful English chamber rockers. Arriving three and a half years after 2011's critically acclaimed Ceremonials, the 11-track set, produced by Markus Dravs, eschews the water and death-fixated metaphors of Ceremonials in favor of a more honest and revealing look at Welch's life, while retaining all of the scope and mystic ... Read More

The much anticipated third studio long-player from Florence Welch and her mechanically inclined cohorts, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful arrives after a period of recalibration for the spirited and soulful English chamber rockers. Arriving three and a half years after 2011's critically acclaimed Ceremonials, the 11-track set, produced by Markus Dravs, eschews the water and death-fixated metaphors of Ceremonials in favor of a more honest and revealing look at Welch's life, while retaining all of the scope and mystic pageantry of her prior outings. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi Read Less