Shake It OutFlorence + the Machine · 2011

pitchfork

“On her debut album Lungs, British power vocalist Florence Welch showed a lot of range, sometimes to the point of distraction. She incorporated bells and whistles into her songs at every turn-- theatrical harp plucking, garage-rock backdrops, noirish narratives. But who needs that sort of nuance or variety when you can make a pure pop song as impossibly huge-sounding as "Shake It Out"? The first si”