Album Review: Florence + The Machine Get Spiritual In “High As Hope”

I firmly believe that it is inherent to the human spirit to crave connection, particularly with the universe. If you believe we are just stardust then our desire to be apart of or as big as this universe is natural. Florence + The Machine’s High As Hope explores this concept like only Florence Welch can.

MY GAWD THAT VOICE! Florence Welch could make a statue cry with her notes striking your soul like a series of bells. High As Hope feels like her most spiritual record, in part, because of its godly themes. In a time, where it seems isolation is prevailing she, lyrically, aims for that gnawing craving for connection. “Hunger”, “No Choir”, “Patricia”, and “Big God” have Florence singing to her desire to feel apart of greater movements and energies, and feeling like that is our destiny: to share your greatness with another’s greatness. The problem is can two powerful people, peacefully, co-exist in love?  As her songs twirl, tweak, and twinge in arrangements,  this question pervades. 
Florence + The Machine – Hunger

In a world that believes to divide is to make something special, but knows that it is when we share our experiences that we FEEL special, High As Hope changes its melodies like sheets in the wind to come to the same, ethereal conclusion: sharing is caring. Yes, I know that is a kindergarten reference meant to teach kids how to be good to each other and pass graham crackers. Yet, who is to say it has no relevance to what adults should learn? For Florence + The Machine, High As A Hope is a call to change your mind so that, in turn, you change your matter, but this is no easy feat. From “100 Years” to “June,” Florence wails and slams her notes as if she is a tree being plucked and cut for its fruit; on one end she is nature itself, but, on the other, she is getting destroyed.
Florence + The Machine – Big God

High As Hope is, oddly enough, Florence Welch’s most confident, rawest album because her confessional style lyrics and aching annotations of vulnerability give her a religious frequency. Sonically, the album is hard to box, which only amps that, perhaps, the greatest experimentation a person can undergo is being themselves. From rocker chic to folklorish queen, you get the many faces of Florence Welch on High As Hope. For More On Florene + The Machine And To Buy High As Hope Click Here.