![]() ![]() On the band’s fifth album, she’s still chasing her own heroically errant muse down whichever mossy, forked path it might take her: “I need my empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology,” she sings on the opener, “King,” adding “ ’Cause I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king.”ĭance Fever may be Welch’s most ecstatically extra work yet. But her influences were at once more ancient and more modern, marrying a goth melodrama that went back to the Brontës with a New Romantic exoticism that evoked Kate Bush, tied together by a secret-sharing intensity that’s always made Welch feel like an eternal wild child, a feminist warrior, and a sisterly confidante. ![]() music scene was awash in the retro-soul typified by Amy Winehouse and Adele. When Florence + + the Machine made their debut a little more than a decade ago, the U.K. ![]()
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