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Lungs is the debut studio album by Florence and the Machine, released July 6, 2009 through Island Records. On July 5, 2009, Florence and the Machine announced through their website that the album was gonna be released digitally a day early.[1]

The album originally charted at number 2 in the UK, and stayed there for 5 weeks.[2] It charted at number 14 in the US, as well as charting in the top 40 in 13 countries. The album has since went 5x platinum in the UK, and has sold over 2 million copies in Europe.

The album followed after their first three singles—"Kiss with a Fist", "Dog Days Are Over" and "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)"—as well as 3 other singles and also the re release of "Dog Days Are Over", which managed to chart at number 23 in the UK, and 21 in the US.[3]

In 2010, Lungs won the BRIT Awards MasterCard British Album of the Year, as well as being nominated for British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. They performed with Dizzee Rascal at the BRIT Awards and played a mash up of "You've Got the Love" and Dizzee Rascal's "Dirtee Cash". The song was released digitally and charted at number 2 in the UK. The album was re issued in November 2010 as Between Two Lungs.

Background and recording[]

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. 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]

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. 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.[5] 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.[6] 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."

The band elected to record a shorter rendition of "Kiss with a Fist" as their debut single. Welch, however, began expanding upon the crude punk style which influenced "Kiss with a Fist" by listening to more contemporary music, particularly Arcade Fire's debut album Funeral (2004). The influence of the recordings would manifest itself on the concept she had devised for Lungs, which, according to Welch, was a "scrapbook of the past five years... it's about guilt, fear, love, death, violence, nightmares, [and] dreams". Ultimately, the majority of Welch's earlier self-penned compositions were rejected for the album—except "Kiss with a Fist" and "Between Two Lungs"—because they did not mesh well with the album's themes. Fortunately for the group, they rehearsed and improvised some of the material in the relaxed setting of Summers' studio, allowing Welch to refine the tribal drumming backdropping Lungs’s tracks, most notably "Dog Days Are Over".

Florence and the Machine recorded Lungs in the United Kingdom with five different producers—Paul Epworth, James Ford, Stephen Mackey, Eg White, and Charlie Hugall. Most of the songs on the album were mixed by Cenzo Townshend.[7] The album's sound is described as indie rock, indie pop, baroque pop, art rock, art pop, alternative rock and soul with influences of punk blues, electro-rock and garage rock.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Artwork[]

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. 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",[15] while Orlando Weeks, an art student and frontman of the band the Maccabees, built the prostethic lungs, which he intended to give "a Victoriana, industrial punchbag kind of look".[16]

Release and promotion[]

Florence and the Machine announced via their website on September 24, 2010 that Lungs would be re-released on November 15 as a two-disc package titled Between Two Lungs. Read more

On February 27, 2011, Lungs: The B-Sides was released exclusively in the United States to digital music retailers such as the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3.[17][18] This was followed by the release of a deluxe edition of Lungs in the US on April 26, 2011, featuring all 11 tracks from Lungs: The B-Sides on a bonus disc to accompany the original 13-track album.[19] On July 3, 2019, ten years after the original release of the album, the band announced that a limited "tenth anniversary edition" was available for pre-order.[20] It was released digitally on August 16,[21] with the LPs and cassettes released the same day. An exclusive box set was released on October 4.[22] 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."[23] It also includes "postcards and inserts, showcasing previously unseen images from the Lungs era" chosen by Welch herself.[23][24]

Singles[]

The album was supported by six singles, all of which were supplemented by accompanying music videos.

“Kiss with a Fist" was released on June 9, 2008 as the lead single from Lungs, peaking at number 51 on the UK Singles Chart.[25]

"Dog Days Are Over" was released December 1, 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.[25] The song was used in the theatrical trailer for the 2010 film Eat Pray Love, starring Julia Roberts.[26] The Yeasayer remix of "Dog Days Are Over", which is included on Between Two Lungs, was released on October 12, 2010 on iTunes.[27]

"Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" was released as the third single from the album on June 22, 2009, peaking at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.[25]

"Drumming Song" was released as the album's fourth single on September 7, 2009, reaching number 54 in the UK.[25]

"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.[25] 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."[7] Florence and the Machine's duet with rapper Dizzee Rascal at the 2010 Brit Awards on February 16, 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.[28][29] "You Got the Dirtee Love" reached number two on the UK chart.[25]

On January 5, 2010, "Hurricane Drunk" was originally announced as the sixth single from the album.[30] A video for the song was filmed in Paris on January 8, 2010 and premiered on January 29 after the Celebrity Big Brother 2010 final on Channel 4.[30][31] However, on March 3, 2010, a reissue of "Dog Days Are Over" was announced through the band's website. The single was released digitally on April 11 and as a seven-inch vinyl the following day, along with a new music video.[32] It reached a new peak of number 23 on the UK Singles Chart,[25] later reaching new peak of number 21 in 2023 following renewed interest in the track after its inclusion in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3.[33]

"Cosmic Love" was released on July 5, 2010 as the album's sixth and final single.[34] The song reached number 51 on the UK Singles Chart.[25] The band made a guest appearance in the February 7, 2011 episode of Gossip Girl, titled "Panic Roommate", where they performed an acoustic rendition of "Cosmic Love".

Tour[]

Main article: Lungs Tour
The Lungs tour began in February 2008 in England, and they toured Europe through 2008. In July, they announced a six date concert tour of the UK, before 3 more dates added. Following the success of the UK tour, mainland European dates were added in countries such as The Netherlands and Italy, where the album also achieved moderate success. North American dates were added, as well as a show in Tokyo. In early 2010, they played in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, in Europe and North America up until April 2010. In May, 2010, they began The Cosmic Love Tour which lasted from May until July 2011.

Critical reception[]

Lungs received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 79, based on 22 reviews.[35] James Christopher Monger of AllMusic praised it as "one of the most musically mature and emotionally mesmerizing albums of 2009" and stated, "With an arsenal of weaponry that included the daring musicality of Kate Bush, the fearless delivery of Sinéad O'Connor, and the dark, unhinged vulnerability of Fiona Apple, the London native crafted a debut that not only lived up to the machine-gun spray of buzz that heralded her arrival, but easily surpassed it."[36] Ryan Dombal wrote for Pitchfork that Florence Welch "bursts mouth wide wide over garage rock, epic soul, pint-tipping Britbeat, and—best of all—a mystic brand of pop that's part Annie Lennox, Grace Slick, and Joanna Newsom."[13] Q noted that "there's a lot going on, but Welch never confuses breadth with depth". Entertainment Weekly’s Joseph Brannigan Lynch opined that Welch's "immaculately constructed indie pop recalls Regina Spektor, but without the studied artiness: Welch is more concerned with raw emotional release."[37] Spin’s Melissa Maerz stated, "From the way she sings, in big gulps and Teen Wolf growls, to the mystical art-rock ballads she bedazzles with sleigh bells, harps, and choirs, there's enough drama here for a Broadway musical. But her delivery is so raw that every mess feels genuine."[38]

Rolling Stone’s Jon Dolan expressed that "[t]he best bits feel like being chased through a moonless night by a sexy moor witch."[9] Slant Magazine’s Nick Day referred to the band's music as "particularly sensitive to studio gloss" and praised Welch's singing as "a fine balance between elegance and frenzy."[39] In a review for The Guardian, Dave Simpson viewed that Welch "has created a sonic labyrinth of xylophones, percussion, Gregorian chants and werewolves. It can sound affected, occasionally crass, but there's enough adventure to make this worth backing for the Mercury."[40] Jamie Fullerton of NME commended the work of producers James Ford and Paul Epworth, writing that they "create epic cauldron-swirls of Terminator-theme drums, Massive Attack atmospherics and twinkle-eye harp matched by Florence's grappling of skyward choruses", but found that "with the likes of 'I'm Not Calling You A Liar' and 'Howl' boasting similarly windy production yet no identifiable tunes the results sound aimless—if harmless."[41] Genevieve Koski of The A.V. Club felt that "[a]t times, Lungs borders on exhausting, careening as it does from one over-the-top track to the next. [...] But with a voice as strong and emotive as hers, it's not surprising that Welch has little use for moments of quiet contemplation."[42] Despite criticising instances of "over-smoothed" production on certain tracks, The Observer’s Sheryl Garratt concluded that "there's a real joy about this debut. It's the sound of someone who has found their voice and is keen to use it – as loudly and freely as possible."[43]

Accolades[]

Lungs was shortlisted for the 2009 Mercury Prize.[44] The following year, the album won the MasterCard British Album award at the Brit Awards.[45]

Commercial performance[]

Lungs debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart (behind Michael Jackson's 2005 compilation album The Essential Michael Jackson), selling 63,020 copies in its first week[46]—the second highest amount for a debut album in 2009, after Susan Boyle's Dreamed a Dream.[47][48] On January 17, 2010, after spending 28 consecutive weeks in the top 40,[49] the album topped the UK chart for the first time, selling 51,005 copies.[50] It spent a second consecutive week atop the chart, with 42,359 copies sold.[51] On March 8, 2019, Lungs was certified sextuple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI),[52] and had sold 1,813,557 copies in the United Kingdom by August 2019.[53]

Following the band's performance of "Dog Days Are Over" at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, Lungs jumped from number 44 to number 14 on the US Billboard 200 with sales of 21,000 copies, an increase of 165% from the previous week.[54] The album was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on June 25, 2018.[55] It had sold 1,142,000 copies in the United States as of February 2013.[56] Worldwide, Lungs had sold over three million copies as of November 2011.[57]

Track listing[]

No. Title Writer(s) Producers Length
1. Dog Days Are Over Florence Welch, Isabella Summers James Ford, Summers 4:13
2. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) Welch, Paul Epworth Epworth 3:52
3. I'm Not Calling You a Liar Welch, Summers Ford, Summers 3:05
4. Howl Welch, Epworth Epworth 3:34
5. Kiss with a Fist Welch, Matt Allchin Stephen Mackey 2:04
6. Girl with One Eye Allchin, David Ashby, James McCool Mackey 3:39
7. Drumming Song Welch, Ford, Crispin Hunt Ford 3:44
8. Between Two Lungs Welch, Summers Ford, Summers 4:09
9. Cosmic Love Welch, Summers Epworth, Summers 4:16
10. My Boy Builds Coffins Welch, Christopher Lloyd Hayden, Rob Ackroyd Charlie Hugall, Mackey, Richard Flack 2:57
11. Hurricane Drunk Welch, Eg White White, Epworth 3:13
12. Blinding Welch, Epworth Epworth 4:40
13. You’ve Got The Love John Bellamy, Arnecia Michelle Harris, Anthony B. Stephens Hugall 2:49
Total Length 43:75


Deluxe edition[]

No. Title Writer(s) Producers Length
1. Bird Song Intro Ackroyd Hugall 1:20
2. Bird Song Welch, Hynes Hugall 2:55
3. Dog Days Are Over (demo) Welch, Summers 3:35
4. Falling Welch, Summers Summers, Robertson 3:33
5. Hardest of Hearts Welch, Mark-Anthony Tieku Summers, Ford 3:26
6. Ghosts (demo) Welch, Summers 2:58
7. Girl with One Eye (Bayou Percussion Version) Allchin, Ashby, McCool Ford 3:55
8. Swimming Welch, Mackey, Alex James, Simon Stafford Richard Flack, Mackey 3:22
9. Dog Days Are Over (music video) Tom Beard, Tabitha Denholm (directors) 3:55
Total Length 26:59


Lungs (10th Anniversary Edition)[]

No. Title Writer(s) Producers Length
1. Dog Days Are Over Florence Welch, Isabella Summers James Ford, Summers 4:13
2. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) Welch, Paul Epworth Epworth 3:52
3. I'm Not Calling You a Liar Welch, Summers Ford, Summers 3:05
4. Howl Welch, Epworth Epworth 3:34
5. Kiss with a Fist Welch, Matt Allchin Stephen Mackey 2:04
6. Girl with One Eye Allchin, David Ashby, James McCool Mackey 3:39
7. Drumming Song Welch, Ford, Crispin Hunt Ford 3:44
8. Between Two Lungs Welch, Summers Ford, Summers 4:09
9. Cosmic Love Welch, Summers Epworth, Summers 4:16
10. My Boy Builds Coffins Welch, Christopher Lloyd Hayden, Rob Ackroyd Charlie Hugall, Mackey, Richard Flack 2:57
11. Hurricane Drunk Welch, Eg White White, Epworth 3:13
12. Blinding Welch, Epworth Epworth 4:40
13. You’ve Got The Love John Bellamy, Arnecia Michelle Harris, Anthony B. Stephens Hugall 2:49
14. Bird Song Welch, Hynes Hugall 2:55
15. My Boy Builds Coffins (acoustic) Welch, Hayden, Ackroyd 2:50
16. My Best Dress (demo) Welch 2:34
17. Donkey Kosh (demo) Welch 2:56
18. Hospital Beds Matt Maust, Matt Aveiro, Nathan Willett, Jonathan Russell Epworth 2:14
19. Falling Welch, Summers Ford 3:33
20. Ghosts (demo) Welch, Summers Welch, Summers 2:57
21. Postcards From Italy Zack Condon Welch 3:31
22. Swimming Welch, Mackey, Alex James Flack, Mackey 3:22
23. Are You Hurting the One You Love? Welch, Summers, Hayden, Tom Monger Hugall 2:57
24. Oh! Darling (Live At Abbey Road, UK / 2009) Paul McCartney, John Lennon 3:19
Total Length 74:03

Credits[]

Florence and the Machine[]

  • Florence Welch – vocals, additional drums, percussion (all tracks); backing vocals (7, 8); art direction
  • Rob Ackroyd – guitar (1, 5, 10, 13); bass (5)
  • Christopher Lloyd Hayden – drums (1–3, 5, 10, 11, 13)
  • Tom Monger – harp (1–3, 7–13)
  • Isabella Summers – additional drums, percussion (all tracks); additional producer (1, 3, 8, 9); piano (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 13)

Additional personnel[]

  • Leo Abrahams – guitar (6)
  • Victoria Akintola – backing vocals (7, 8)
  • Mete Burch Bator – bass (10)
  • Tom Beard – photography
  • Ian Burdge – cello (1, 3, 7, 8, 12)
  • Neil Comber – mixing assistant (2–4, 6–13)
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Paul Epworth – producer (2, 4, 9, 12); additional producer (11)
  • Richard Flack – engineer (5, 6); mixing (5); vocal producer (10)
  • James Ford – additional piano, producer (1, 3, 7, 8); bass (1, 7); mixing (1); drums (7, 8); organ (7)
  • LaDonna Harley-Peters – backing vocals (7, 8)
  • Charlie Henry – cello (10)
  • Sally Herbert – string arrangements, violin
  • Charlie Hugall – additional drums, percussion (all tracks); producer (10, 13); additional bass (13)
  • Ben Jackson – assistant engineer (10)
  • Stephen Mackey – bass, producer (5, 6); mixing (5); vocal producer (10)
  • Tim McCall – guitar (5); additional guitar (6)
  • Duncan "Pixie" Mills – assistant engineer, Hammond organ (10)
  • Ben Mortimer – final edit (7)
  • Everton Nelson – violin
  • Mark Rankin – engineer (2, 4, 9, 12); additional engineer (11)
  • Al Riley – assistant engineer (13)
  • Jimmy Robertson – engineer (1, 3, 7, 8); mixing (1)
  • Martin Slattery – drums (6)
  • Cenzo Townshend – mixing (2–4, 6–13)
  • Bruce White – viola
  • Eg White – producer (11)

Artwork[]

  • Tom Beard – photography
  • Tabitha Denholm – art direction
  • Wade Fletcher – live photography
  • Hugh Frost – layout
  • Orlando Weeks – lung illustration on back cover

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Tour • Merch • Photoshoot • Producers
Discography
Releases A Lot of Love, A Lot of Blood • Lungs • Between Two Lungs • Lungs: The B-Sides • Lungs 10th Anniversary Edition
Tracklist Dog Days Are Over • Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) • I'm Not Calling You a Liar • Howl • Kiss with a Fist • Girl with One Eye • Drumming Song • Between Two Lungs • Cosmic Love • My Boy Builds Coffins • Hurricane Drunk • Blinding • You’ve Got the Love
Deluxe Bird Song Intro • Bird Song • Dog Days Are Over (demo) • Falling • Hardest of Hearts • Ghosts (demo) • Girl with One Eye (Bayou Percussion Version)
Between Two Lungs Heavy In your Arms • You Got the Dirtee Love • Hurricane Drunk (Horrors Remix) • Strangeness and Charm (Live From Hammersmith Apollo / 2010 • Swimming (Live From Hammersmith Apollo / 2010) • Dog Days Are Over (Yeasayer Remix) • Drumming Song (iTunes Live: London Festival / 2010) • Girl with One Eye (iTunes Live: London Festival / 2010) • Hurricane Drunk (iTunes Live: London Festival / 2010) • Dog Days Are Over (iTunes Live: London Festival / 2010) • My Boy Builds Coffins (iTunes Live: London Festival / 2010) • Hospita Beds (iTunes Live: London Festival / 2010)
B-Sides Swimming • Heavy in Your Arms • Ghosts (I'm Not Calling You a Liar Demo) • You Got the Dirtee Love • Dog Days Are Over (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix) • Falling • Are You Hurting the One You Love? • Addicted to Love • Bird Song • Hospital Beds • Hardest of Hearts
10th Anniversary Edition My Best Dress (demo) • Donkey Kosh (demo) • Hospital Beds • Falling • Ghosts (demo) • Postcards From Italy • Swimming • Are You Hurting the One You Love? • Oh! Darling (Live At Abbey Road, UK / 2009)
Non-Album Not Fade Away
Unreleased Paper Massacre • Throwing Bricks • Halloween • Tear Out My Tongue
Other Eras
Lungs • Ceremonials • How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful • High As Hope • Dance Fever
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