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Time magazine ranked it as the second best album of 2011, stating, "Despite her penchant for emotive gloom, Welch's tales of heartache can be oddly uplifting; when she sings about darkness and demons, we know she will ultimately conquer them. The following year at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, Ceremonials received a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album, and "Shake It Out" was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75, based on 36 reviews. There is a change of tempo from their previous album, but this just adds a new dimension and enjoyment for the listener. AllMusic critic James Christopher Monger wrote, "Bigger and bolder than 2009's excellent Lungs, Ceremonials rolls in like fog over the Thames, doling out a heavy-handed mix of Brit-pop-infused neo-soul anthems and lush, movie trailer-ready ballads that fuse the bluesy, electro-despair of Adele with the ornate, gothic melodrama of Kate Bush and Floodland-era Sisters of Mercy.

On 18 January 2013, Ceremonials was certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), [97] and by June 2015, it had sold 715,275 copies in the United Kingdom.On her band's second album, it can feel like Florence Welch is simply holding out a single note at top volume for an hour. On "American Idol", contestants like Welch are invariably deemed "quirky" and doomed to runner-up status. Directed by Vincent Haycock, the music video debuted on 19 November and features a new single version of the song. As Welch mournfully sings of being laid down with "pockets full of stones" before the track swells to a choir-bolstered climax of Emily Brontë ’n’ Kate Bush proportions, images of her as John William Waterhouse’s doomed, red-headed Ophelia can’t help but swim before your eyes. But by the midway point of the LP, its endless crescendos start bleeding into each other, and the loudness soon tires itself out.

On 23 August 2011, the song was released as a promotional single from the album, [18] along with an accompanying music video. He also indicated that there were 16 songs up for inclusion on the album, but that this would be reduced upon the time of release. Ceremonials debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling approximately 38,000 copies in its first two days of release and 94,050 copies altogether in its first week. Entertainment Weekly 's Kyle Anderson praised it as a "confident, unflinching tour de force" and commented, "If her acclaimed 2009 debut, Lungs, was a scrappy shrine to survival and empowerment, its follow-up is a baroque cathedral, bedecked with ornate tapestries made of ghostly choirs, pagan-rhythmic splendor, and a whole lot of harp.Some people have complained about the sound quality of the download, but the sound on the two CDs is excellent and sound fine transferred to my MP3. Not audiophile quality, but without a doubt better than the digital versions, which are major loudness war victims (DR 4-6). The following day, Florence and the Machine appeared on the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live for the second time, performing "Shake It Out" and "No Light, No Light". On 1 November, they performed "What the Water Gave Me" and "No Light, No Light" on the British music television show Later.

The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast.Margaret Wappler of the Los Angeles Times found that Welch had "found a way to honor her Bjorkian appetites for lavish orchestral spectacle while finding the depth and subtlety of her voice".

And that's where many of these tracks will have the greatest chance to thrive-- in the open, with heads as far as one can see. Selling 105,000 units in its opening week in the United States, Ceremonials entered the Billboard 200 at number six, [103] while debuting atop the Alternative Albums, Rock Albums and Digital Albums charts.The lines double as a snippet of self-criticism; perhaps Welch finds it "so easy" to sing her tunes to thousands because they often lack an individual touch that could send them even further skyward-- the same touch that comes so naturally to fellow UK chart queen Adele.

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