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This album is not an easy feat to accomplish: grandiose, vulnerable storytelling, stellar vocals, and epic production. These collections of songs are big, theatrical, and contain huge choruses that ultimately mask what's underneath: hymns. Each song is a manifestation of death, spirituality, and sadness chanting out towards something greater.

This album saved my life, specifically the song Never Let Me Go.

As a debut album, this project displays the emotion and vulnerability in Florence's vocals, lyrics, and performance while top notch band instrumentation following closely. Every instrument tangent, vocal breath, vocal fry, and background strings are all intentional to convey the emotion first before any thought. It is rare to come across any band or group that presents potent emotion like this, and therefore has left a mark in the music industry as one of the most influential body of work ... read more

As a casual fan that kept up with Taylor's news and album cycles since folklore, it was very disappointing to hear this album after the gloating about how Taylor and Max Martin & co. took years off from working together to "perfect" their craft only to create one her weakest albums to date. I much prefer Lover as that album achieved a better vision to the album's purpose. The Life of a Showgirl felt like an after thought from The Eras tour and had no substantial songs ... read more

After about 10 years later, Stoked and Broke came out on my shuffle in years, for some reason I haven't listened to this album or band since 2015. I never realized how infectious and fresh this album was and still is in the landscape of everything else on the market. Songs like No Waves, Gimmie Something, 9 to5, and Paycheck are still relative today. Though I had great nostalgia revisiting this album, I don't really enjoy this type of music anymore and doesn't scratch that itch ... read more