Lungs could not have a more appropriate title. Florence Welch just belts and belts and belts and lets it all out with her personal volume perpetually set at a cathartic "11" throughout her 2009 debut album with the nebulous backing band known as the Machine. It's the musical equivalent of standing on a windblown ocean cliff for 45 minutes while cloaked in some kind of animal skin and ... I dunno ... waving a sceptre or a trident or a staff or something at the roiling firmament. Maybe on fire, too. Definitely near fire, at any rate, if not actually engulfed in flames. Rolling Stone magazine put it best: "The best bits feel like being chased through a moonless night by a sexy moor witch." Can't really top that.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Dog Days Are Over
2. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
3. I'm Not Calling You A Liar
4. Howl
5. Kiss With A Fist
6. Girl With One Eye
7. Drumming Song
8. Between Two Lungs
9. Cosmic Love
10. My Boy Builds Coffins
11. Hurricane Drunk
12. Blinding
13. You've Got The Love