Florence & The Machine Lungs

Personnel: Sally Herbert, Everton Nelson (violin); Bruce White (viola); Charlie Hugall, Isabell Summers, Florence Welch (drums, percussion).Audio Mixer: Chenzo Townsend.Recording information: Miloco; Space Cave; Strongroom 33; The Dairy Studios; The Garden; The Pool; The Smokehouse; The Synagogue.Illustrator: Orlando Weeks.Photographers: Tom Beard; Wade Fletcher.Precocious Brit Florence Welch fired a bullet into the head of the U.K. music scene in 2008 with the single "Kiss with a Fist," a punk-infused, perfectly juvenile summer anthem that had critics wiping the names Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, and Kate Nash from their vocabularies and replacing them with Florence and the Machine. While the comparisons were apt at the time, "Kiss with a Fist" turned out to be a red herring in the wake of the release of LUNGS, one of the most musically mature and emotionally mesmerizing albums of 2009. With an arsenal of weaponry that included the daring musicality of Kate Bush, the fearless delivery o