7.3
Avg Score
6
Opinions
#20,675
All Time
10
Tracks
“A mix of raw-nerved personal reckoning and outward-looking, life-affirming anthems, Florence and the Machine’s follow-up to the chart-topping How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful soars just as high. A new level of vulnerability from Florence Welch and deft, atmospheric production from Emile Haynie (Lana Del Rey) makes High As Hope another album of cathedral-filling, mountain-moving sound, with Welch’s”
“Florence + The Machine exercise a bit more restraint than usual on High as Hope.”
“Florence Welch has been very open how recent years have seen her kick the bottle, the excesses and the ‘two day parties’ that filled the void between touring life and reality. Here on album number four, you sense that she’s finally found comfort at home. Her usual wuthering whimsy on ‘South London Forever’ is anchored now the modesty of returning to where she came from. Rather than a celestial ro”
