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Florence + The Machine - High As Hope (CD ALBUM) 'Hunger' is a startling introduction to the fourth Florence + the Machine album, 'High As Hope', which ventures into new territory as much as it reaches back to one's roots. Florence started writing the record (which is also the first she has officially co-produced) in solitude in South London, routlinelycycling to her studio in Peckham every day to, as she puts it, "bang on the wall with sticks". She took the songs to Los Angeles with her friend and co-producer Emile Haynie, opening them up along the way for collaboration with the likes of KamasiWashington, Sampha, Tobias JessoJr, Kelsey Lu and Jamie xx. Florence mixed the record in New York, where the daily, reassuring view of that iconic skyline often in stark contrast to the chaos of the wider world -gave the album its upbeat title. What's emerged -'High As Hope' -is the sound of an artist who appears more certain than ever of herself. Florence writes now about her teens and twenties with a renewed, more mature perspective: of growing up in South London, of family, relationships and art itself. For perhaps the first time, 'High As Hope' is a record that is as intimate as it is epic, with themore restrained sound -relatively speaking; Florence knows herself well enough now to declare "I'm never going to be minimal" -mirroring this sense that happiness doesn't always have to be big and dramatic: it can often be found in the mundane, in the everyday things that aren't always celebrated in songs. "There's a lot of love in this record, loneliness too, but a lot of love." An album that mixes high and low from a tribute to Patti Smith one minute to being ghosted over text by a date the next 'High As Hope' is made up, says Florence, "of joy and fury" but with the joy arguably winning out, in the end. "It's always a work in progress, and I definitely don't have everything figured out. But this feels like quite a pure expression ofwho I am now, as an artist, and an honest one. I'm just more comfortable with who I am." And that is the beginning of a far longer journey of Florence Welch. Tracklistings: Florence + the Machine: 'High As Hope' 1.June 2.Hunger 3.South London Forever 4.Big God 5.Sky Full of Song 6.Grace 7.Patricia 8.100 Years 9.The End of Love 10.No Choir
