18-06-2012 20:09 AlfredoOcaranza |
 9 posts
| The album's main theme is pretty much drowning. And that's not such a bad thing. Continuing to be an album as dark as Lungs, Ceremonials steps into a more soulful territory. Welch's vocals being showed off more than the usual. Th album is let commercial than Lungs, but it does feature some hook-heavy songs. For instance, Shake It Out, No Light No Light, and Only If For A Night. Ghosts seem to also be a main theme in this album. But who cares? The album is not as great as Lungs, but it is still a masterpiece of soul. |
04-04-2012 17:46 purushothamn51 |
03-01-2012 02:08 Silmarile |
 217 posts
| While the songs on Ceremonials plumb themes of sinking and drowning, Florence Welch's effortless vocals float above pulsating, tribal/Celtic-inflected rhythms, offering a needed lifeline to listeners. The sound of this album is more unified than 2009's joyously frenetic Lungs, and the ceremonials presented are those of suffering, hope, and self-determination. As in life, such rituals offer no guarantees of redemption, only promises of haunting the waking, sleeping, and liminal places of our consciousness. |