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Artist News
New Florence album not about the periodic table
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 29 April 2010
Florence & The Machine’s second album will contain songs about crystals and atomic particles, but it won’t be entirely about the periodic table. I’m sure that’s a weight off your mind.
Florence Welch told BBC Newsbeat: “There’s a song called ‘Spectrum’, which has a lot to do with rainbows and prisms – so it has taken on a lot more of a crystal theme. I did a song inspired by these two atomic particles called strangeness and charm, now everyone thinks I’m going to do an album about the periodic table – which I’m not. But that would be a good concept album though. You could go into schools and get people back into science”.
Sticking with the science theme, she said her new lyrics are more “chemical” than on her debut album, ‘Lungs’. I have no idea what she’s banging on about, but this is what she said: “The atmosphere is quite tough but the lyrics are moving away from gothic horror toward something that’s slightly more chemical. It’s ages away from finished yet though”.
To fill in the time, Flo will release ‘Cosmic Love’, the sixth single from ‘Lungs’, on 12 Jul via Universal/Island and play some gigs in May.
