Florence and the Machine are celebrating the tenth anniversary of How Huge, How Blue, How Stunning with a restricted version blue marble vinyl. The album, housed in a single sleeve with x2 printed inners and a 4pg booklet, is on the market for pre-order now and can arrive August 29 through UMR/Island.
The third studio album from the undertaking led by Florence Welch grew to become their third consecutive No.1 album within the UK upon launch in 2015. It additionally peaked at No.1 on the US Billboard Chart and in Australia, Canada, Switzerland and within the high 10 for many releasing territories. The album options the singles “Ship To Wreck,” “What Kind of Man,” “Queen of Peace,” and “Delilah.” How Huge, How Blue, How Stunning earned 5 Grammy Award nominations and was shortlisted for the 2015 Mercury Prize.
How Huge, How Blue, How Stunning was produced by Markus Dravs (Björk, Arcade Fireplace, Coldplay), with different contributions from Paul Epworth, Child Harpoon, John Hill and others.
“I guess although I’ve always dealt in fantasy and metaphor when I came to writing, that meant the songs this time were dealing much more in reality,” Welch mentioned of the album on the time of launch. “Ceremonials was so fixated on death and water, and the idea of escape or transcendence through death, but the new album became about trying to learn how to live, and how to love in the world rather than trying to escape from it. Which is frightening because I’m not hiding behind anything but it felt like something I had to do.”
Final 12 months, Florence + the Machine carried out at Royal Albert Corridor alongside Jules Buckley and his Orchestra for a efficiency celebrating 15 years of her seminal debut album Lungs. The efficiency was later launched as a stay album, Symphony of Lungs (BBC Proms on the Royal Albert Corridor).
