Lungs (10th Anniversary Edition)＜Wine Red Vinyl/限定盤＞

フローレンス・アンド・ザ・マシーンが2009年7月3日にリリースしたメジャー・デビュー・アルバム『ラングス』のリリース10周年記念限定LP!

全世界で4,500万枚のアルバム・セールスを誇るフローレンス・アンド・ザ・マシーンが2009年7月3日にリリースしたメジャー・デビュー・アルバム。全英アルバム・チャートNO.1を獲得し、トップ40に89週ランク・イン。さらに、2009年のマーキュリー・アワードへのノミネート、2010年ブリット・アワードのBritish Album of the Yearを受賞。本作はその10周年記念LP。LP仕様(カラー・ヴァイナル:ワイン・レッド)

Spin (p.76) - "On 'Dog Days Are Over,' she sings so delicately about a happiness that hits you 'like a train' that you feel protective." Spin (p.33) - Ranked #8 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2009" -- "[The] debut has a decidedly slick veneer, making '80s New Romanticism feel like a fresh clarion call..." Entertainment Weekly (p.58) - "Singer Florence Welch's immaculately constructed indie pop recalls Regina Spektor, but without the studied artiness..." -- Grade: A- Entertainment Weekly (p.104) - Included in Entertainment Weekly's 'The Best Albums of 2009' -- "LUNGS evokes generations of iconoclastic females...but doesn't surrender Welch's own spectacular voice for a moment." Pitchfork (Website) - "[With] garage rock, epic soul, pint-tipping Britbeat, and -- best of all -- a mystic brand of pop that's part Annie Lennox, Grace Slick and Joanna Newsom."

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 + 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 of Sinead O'Connor, and the dark, unhinged vulnerability of Fiona Apple, the London native crafted a debut that not only lived up to the machine-gun spray of buzz that heralded her arrival, but easily surpassed it. Like Kate Bush, Welch has little interest (for the most part) in traditional pop structures, and her songs are at their best when they see something sparkle in the woods and veer off of the main trail in pursuit. "Kiss with a Fist," as good as it is, pales in comparison to standout cuts like "Dog Days Are Over," "Hurricane Drunk," "Drumming Song," "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)," and "Cosmic Love," all of which are anchored to the earth by Welch's knockout voice, a truly impressive and intuitive trio of producers, and a backing band that sounds as intimate with the material as its creator. [Lungs was also released in a Deluxe Edition that included Lungs: The B-Sides, a bonus disc featuring studio tracks like “Swimming,” “Falling,” and “Heavy in Your Arms,” the latter of which appeared on the soundtrack for Twilight Saga: Eclipse, as well as live cuts (“You've Got the Dirtee Love"), demos (“Ghosts”), and remixes (the "Yeasayer Remix" of “Dog Days Are Over").] ~ James Christopher Monger

作り込まれたドラマティックなトラックに、いくばくかの哀愁を漂わせたなめらかな歌声を乗せるUKニュー・フォークの新星がデビュー作を発表。耳を澄ませばハープやピアノなどさまざまな楽器の存在に気付くが、ローファイの対極にあるめくるめくシアトリカル・ポップとして仕上がった本作は、それ以上に彼女の個性に気付かせる。セリーヌ・ディオンあたりのファンが、間違えて買ってしまうのもありかもね。
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