What's The Story?
Florence + The Machine are a soulful pop rock group from London. Rabbit Heart is from their critically acclaimed first album, Lungs. Also, they're a rock group with a freakin' harp player.
Who's To Blame?
The biggest mess in the education faculty of 09-10.
(Trust me, that's an achievement)
Why ♥ It?
Two reasons, mainly.
First, the all-encompassing vocals of the song. Florence is no doubt the centerpiece of the group, and the verses traverse from her singing with one powerful voice, to giant choral-effect moments and back again. It's sort of a call-and-answer style (see: live performances of the song), but more importantly, it creates an energy flow.
...Which brings me to point number two, the chorus. The verse bottoms out into a building pre-chorus, and that explodes into a chorus that's really, really loud for this type of music. The drums that were sorta-interesting during the verse are now getting pounded, and it's all about layer after layer of cold-shiver, soul-piercing vocals. It absolutely radiates energy.
The probably-bigot in me would call Florence + The Machine sort of a chick-rock band, but make no mistake: they can blow you away just as well as any bearded, testosterone-laden group, and this song is an ideal example of that.
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