Ceremonials

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Ceremonials
Studio album by
Florence and the Machine
Released28 October 2011 (2011-10-28)
Recorded2010–2011
StudioAbbey Road and Wolf Tone, London
Genre
Length55:58
LabelIsland
Producer
Florence and the Machine chronology
Live at the Wiltern

(2011) 		Ceremonials
(2011) 		MTV Unplugged
(2012)
Singles from Ceremonials
  1. "Shake It Out"
    Released: 14 September 2011
  2. "No Light, No Light"
    Released: 16 January 2012
  3. "Never Let Me Go"
    Released: 30 March 2012
  4. "Spectrum (Say My Name)"
    Released: 5 July 2012
  5. "Lover to Lover"
    Released: 30 November 2012

Ceremonials is the second studio album by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine. It was released on 28 October 2011 by Island Records. The band started working on the album in 2010 and finished it in 2011. The standard edition of the album was entirely produced by Paul Epworth, who also worked prominently on the band's debut album Lungs (2009).

Ceremonials received generally positive reviews from music critics, who drew comparisons to artists such as Kate Bush, while also praising the instrumentation, Florence Welch's vocals and the production of the songs. It appeared on several year-end critics' lists in late 2011. At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, the album received a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album, while "Shake It Out" was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Ceremonials debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, becoming the band's second consecutive number-one album. It also debuted at number one in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, and peaked at number six on the US Billboard 200, becoming the band's first top-10 album in the United States. It has sold 2 million copies worldwide.

Five singles were released from Ceremonials. "

gothic pop.[6]

Background

indie and lot more soulful".[9] 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.[9] Pitchfork confirmed on 23 August 2011 that the album was produced solely by Epworth.[10] On 12 September 2011, Canadian radio broadcaster Alan Cross revealed that Florence and the Machine's second album would be titled Ceremonials. He also commented on the album by saying, "I've heard a little more than half the record and it is big, soulful and powerful. Think Adele or Tori Amos but with some serious Kate Bush DNA, especially with the rhythm section."[11]

Regarding the album's title, Welch told

hippies and all these different colored robes and masks, and it was all to do with color, really saturated, brightly colored pastas and balloons. I saw it a couple years ago, and it was called 'Ceremonials' and then, like, Roman numerals after it. And the word sort of stuck with me, and I think the whole idea of performance, and kind of putting on this outfit and going out almost to find some sort of exorcism or absolution, to kind of get outside yourself, there's a sense of ceremony to it."[12] Welch also revealed that she wanted to call the album Violence, stating, "I wanted to make an album that sounded like the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, the violence mixed with the classical Shakespearean drama mixed with the pop and the pulp, extreme neon stuff."[13] In an interview with The Guardian, she described the album as "much bigger" and categorised its genre as "chamber soul", a mixture of chamber pop and soul.[14] The liner notes of Ceremonials contain an essay by English writer Emma Forrest, dated 21 September 2011.[15]

Promotion

Florence and the Machine performing in June 2011 on their Lungs Tour

The song "Strangeness and Charm"—which was ultimately included on the deluxe edition of Ceremonials—was debuted on 2 May 2010 at the

promotional single from the album,[18] along with an accompanying music video.[19]

Florence and the Machine embarked on several live performances to promote Ceremonials. The band premiered four tracks from the album—"Only If for a Night", "

The X Factor Australia (15 November)[26][27] and Good Morning America (21 November).[28]

They performed "Shake It Out" and "What the Water Gave Me" on the

2012 Brit Awards at the O2 Arena in on 21 February 2012.[35] On 2 July 2012, a music video for "Breaking Down" was officially released.[36]

The song "Heartlines" was featured in the 10th episode of the

ninth and final season of One Tree Hill.[44] "Bedroom Hymns" was featured in a trailer for the 2013 romantic drama film The Great Gatsby.[45]

Singles

"What the Water Gave Me" was released on 23 August 2011 as the first taster of Ceremonials.

UK Singles Chart.[47] It saw moderate chart success elsewhere, reaching number 13 in Ireland, number 15 in New Zealand and number 35 in Australia.[48][49]

"Shake It Out" was released as the album's official lead single on 30 September 2011.

XFM London on 14 September 2011.[51] The song peaked at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Florence and the Machine's fourth top-20 single.[47] Internationally, it reached number two on the Irish Singles Chart,[48] while charting inside the top 20 in Austria, New Zealand and Norway, the top 30 in Germany and Switzerland, the top 40 in Australia, and the top 50 in Sweden.[52]

"No Light, No Light" was released on 13 January 2012 as the second single from the album.[53] The single reached number 63 on the UK Singles Chart.[47] The accompanying video, released on 18 November 2011,[54] caused controversy after it was accused of racism due to its perceived use of blackface by an actor in the video, and was also criticised for its depiction of voodoo.[55][56][57]

"Never Let Me Go" was released on 30 March 2012 as the third single from the album.[58] The music video was released on 7 March 2012.[59] The track charted at number 82 in the UK,[47] while reaching number three in Australia, the band's highest-peaking single in that country to date.[60]

A remix of "Spectrum" by Scottish DJ and producer Calvin Harris, subtitled "Say My Name", was released on 5 July 2012 as the album's fourth single.[61] It became the band's first number-one single in both the UK and Ireland.[48][62]

"Lover to Lover" was released as the fifth and final single from the album on 30 November 2012.[63] Directed by Vincent Haycock, the music video debuted on 19 November and features a new single version of the song.[64]

Tour

Main article: Ceremonials Tour

To promote the album, Florence and the Machine embarked on their second worldwide tour titled the Ceremonials Tour on 13 October 2011. The set list includes songs from the band's two studio albums. The tour included numerous performances at music festivals as that is Welch's favourite way to perform live.[14] During an interview with MTV News, Welch discussed the nature of the tour, saying, "In a way, it's not going to be too big a production; we've done a lot of quite extravagant stuff, and that's been amazing, but for this tour, it's definitely going to be about showcasing the music [...] The songs are going to be the most important thing. It will be heavily based on the music [...] no bells and whistles just yet, we're going to try and keep it quite pure."[65] The tour ended in December 2012, after two years of worldwide touring.[66]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.2/10[67]
Metacritic75/100[68]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The Daily Telegraph[69]
Entertainment WeeklyA[70]
The Guardian[71]
The Independent[72]
Los Angeles Times[73]
NME8/10[74]
Pitchfork6.0/10[75]
Rolling Stone[6]
Spin8/10[76]

Ceremonials received generally positive reviews from music critics. At

gothic melodrama of Kate Bush and Floodland-era Sisters of Mercy."[4] 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".[73]

Barry Nicolson of NME noted that "by taking what worked about Lungs and amplifying those qualities to a natural, satisfying conclusion, Florence has made a near-great

ballads, powered by booming drums and vocal chorales rising like distant thunder, full of Welch's banshee wails. The music touches on Celtic melodies, bluesy rock stomps, nods to goth and gospel."[6] The Daily Telegraph's Neil McCormick viewed Ceremonials as "a giant, fluid, emotionally resonant album" and stated, "Contrary to the name she has given her band, the Machine feel organic and human, providing an epic, full-blooded soundtrack to Welch's voodoo, in which rhythm, melody and chanting are employed to drive out neuroses and insecurities, characterised as ghosts and devils."[69] Rob Harvilla of Spin described Welch as "a bloodied, bloodying songbird in a gilded cage of immaculately crafted, slow-burn, chest-beating empowerment anthems, gripping steel bars that her elegantly volcanic voice could shred at any moment", adding, "She's so much better than her material that her material is rendered immaterial."[76]

Michael Hann of The Guardian concluded that the album "always sounds wonderful—producer Paul Epworth has created a warm, soft, four-poster featherbed of sound for Welch to emote over—but it never really satisfies. One yearns for Welch's wonderful voice to be delivering lines of more import than the nonsense she's often delivering here."

piano chords and burring organ underpin the banked, soaring vocals that are her trademark".[72] Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal argued, "Instead of Lungs' largely charming yet discombobulating diversity, Ceremonials suffers from a repetitiveness that's akin to looking at a skyline filled with 100-story behemoths lined-up one after the other, blocking out everything but their own size."[75]

Accolades

Ceremonials was named the best album of 2011 by

Red Sea-parting melodrama, she's got the orchestral grandeur to pull it off. Of course, it helps that she attacks the harp as if she were wielding an ax."[81] Billboard placed it at number eight on its list of the 10 Best Albums of 2011, noting that "Shake It Out" and "What the Water Gave Me" "possess an anthemic quality, but they're far from the only epic moments on the rock-tinged record, which finds Welch channeling avant-pop luminaries like Annie Lennox and Kate Bush."[82] Slant Magazine included Ceremonials at number 22 on its list of The 25 Best Albums of 2011, commenting that the album is "steeped in melodrama, with pump organs, choirs, and strings expertly deployed as pure pomp on already rousing singles like 'Shake It Out' and 'No Light, No Light.' But Welch is perfectly capable of doing delicate too, as evidenced by the gorgeously textured lead single 'What the Water Gave Me' and 'Never Let Me Go,' while tracks like "Lover to Lover" are reminiscent of the Eurythmics at their most soulful."[83] PopMatters ranked the album at number 25 on its list of The 75 Best Albums of 2011, calling it "an expansive album, haunted by tragedy but boldly offering a comforting embrace in reply."[84]

The A.V. Club named it the 26th best album of 2011 and claimed, "A perfect blend of majestic and morose, Ceremonials establishes Welch as one of the most boundary-pushing divas in the business."[85] Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 27 on its list of the 50 Best Albums of 2011, adding, "From 'Shake It Out' to the arena-scale Motown of 'Lover to Lover', Big Red brings it again and again, choirs and string players backing a voice that soars so high, it makes them seem like ants on the ground below."[86] Clash, on its list of The Top 40 Albums of 2011, included Ceremonials at number 28 and opined that the album "heralded the triumphant return of one of Britain's most exciting pop stars. Bettering the sound she first developed on Lungs, the only problem she faces now is deciding which of its massive songs to release as singles."[87] The NME placed the album at number 31 on its list of the 50 Best Albums of 2011, writing that the album "amounted to pop in its purest sense, as something grand and strange and with ambitions higher than mere humanity, as the triple-headed priestess-muse Florence depicted on its sleeve suggested."[88]

The album earned the band nominations for British Female Solo Artist and

2012 Brit Awards.[89] 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.[90]

Artwork

The cover artwork for Ceremonials was photographed by Florence and the Machine's longtime collaborator Tom Beard. In November 2019, it was announced that Beard's portrait of Welch for the album cover would be on permanent display at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) of London in their New Acquisitions exhibition.[91][92][93] According to the NPG, the portrait "signalled a new, sleeker aesthetic for Welch, inspired by Art Deco and early-twentieth-century fashion illustration."[93]

Commercial performance

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.[94][95] It fell to number three the following week, selling 58,278 copies.[96] 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.[98]

The album also debuted at number one in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand,[99][100][101] and was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) in its first week of sales.[101] It was ultimately certified quadruple platinum by the ARIA in 2023, signalling sales of 280,000 equivalent units.[102] 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.[104][105][106] The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on 8 January 2015,[107] and had sold 1,002,000 copies in the US by March 2015.[108] As of May 2012, Ceremonials had sold 2 million copies worldwide.[109]

Track listing

Ceremonials track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)ProducerLength
1."Only If for a Night"
Epworth4:58
2."Shake It Out"
  • Welch
  • Epworth
Epworth4:37
3."What the Water Gave Me"
Epworth5:33
4."Never Let Me Go"
  • Welch
  • Epworth
Epworth4:31
5."Breaking Down"WelchEpworth3:49
6."Lover to Lover"
  • Welch
  • White
Epworth4:02
7."No Light, No Light"
Epworth4:34
8."Seven Devils"
  • Welch
  • Epworth
Epworth5:03
9."Heartlines"
  • Welch
  • Epworth
Epworth5:01
10."Spectrum"
  • Welch
  • Epworth
Epworth5:11
11."All This and Heaven Too"
  • Welch
  • Summers
Epworth4:05
12."Leave My Body"
  • Welch
  • Epworth
Epworth4:34
2012 digital deluxe edition bonus tracks[110]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
13."Spectrum (Say My Name)" (Calvin Harris Remix)
  • Welch
  • Epworth
  • Epworth
  • Harris[b]
3:38
14."Breath of Life"
  • Welch
  • Summers
Summers4:08
15."Take Care" (BBC Live at Maida Vale)
 4:38
16."Remain Nameless"
  • Welch
  • Summers
  • Summers
  • Roulston[a]
4:01
17."Strangeness and Charm"
  • Welch
  • Epworth
Epworth5:16
18."Bedroom Hymns"
  • Welch
  • Ghost
Epworth3:02
19."What the Water Gave Me" (demo)
  • Welch
  • White
White3:53
20."Landscape" (demo)
Ford4:02
21."Heartlines" (acoustic)
  • Welch
  • Epworth
Charlie Hugall5:32
22."Shake It Out" (acoustic)
  • Welch
  • Epworth
Hugall4:12
23."Breaking Down" (acoustic)
  • Welch
Hugall3:31
24."What the Water Gave Me" (video)  5:33
US deluxe edition and Japanese edition bonus tracks[111][112]
No.TitleLength
13."Remain Nameless"4:01
14."Strangeness and Charm"5:16
15."Bedroom Hymns"3:02
16."What the Water Gave Me" (demo)3:53
Non-US deluxe edition bonus disc[113][114][115]
No.TitleLength
1."Remain Nameless"4:01
2."Strangeness and Charm"5:16
3."Bedroom Hymns"3:02
4."What the Water Gave Me" (demo)3:53
5."Landscape" (demo)4:02
6."Heartlines" (acoustic)5:32
7."Shake It Out" (acoustic)4:12
8."Breaking Down" (acoustic)3:31
9."What the Water Gave Me" (iTunes Store bonus video)5:33

Notes

  • ^a signifies an additional producer
  • ^b signifies a remixer

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Ceremonials.[15]

Florence and the Machine

  • Florence Welch – vocals
  • Robert Ackroyd – guitar (track 3)
  • Christopher Lloyd Hayden – drums (tracks 1–12); backing vocals (tracks 1–4, 7–10); percussion (tracks 2, 3)
  • Tom Monger – harp (all tracks); bass (track 8)
  • Mark Saunders – backing vocals (tracks 1–4, 7–9); percussion (tracks 1–3, 7, 9); bass (tracks 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12); additional guitar (track 11)
  • Isabella Summers – piano (tracks 6, 7, 11); drum programming (tracks 7, 11); strings, choir parts (track 7); synth (track 8); celeste, programming (track 11)

Artwork

Deluxe edition bonus disc

Technical

  • Isabella Summers – production (track 1)
  • Ben Roulston – additional production, engineering (track 1)
  • Austen Jux Chandler – engineering (track 1)
  • Paul Epworth – production (tracks 2, 3)
  • Mark Rankin – engineering (track 2); production assistance (track 3)
  • Craig Silvey – mixing (tracks 2, 3)
  • Bryan Wilson – mixing assistance (tracks 2, 3)
  • Ted Jensen – mastering (tracks 2, 3)
  • Eg White – production (track 4)
  • James Ford – production, mixing (track 5)
  • Charlie Hugall – production, mixing (tracks 6–8)

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[102] 4× Platinum 280,000‡
Austria (IFPI Austria)[168] Gold 10,000*
Belgium (BEA)[169] Gold 15,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[170] Gold 40,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[171] Gold 10,000‡
Germany (BVMI)[172] Gold 100,000^
Ireland (IRMA)[173] 3× Platinum 45,000^
Italy (FIMI)[174] Gold 25,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[175] Platinum 15,000^
Poland (ZPAV)[176] Platinum 20,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[97] 3× Platinum 900,000‡
United States (RIAA)[107] Platinum 1,002,000[108]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region Date Edition Label Ref.
Australia 28 October 2011
  • Standard
  • deluxe
 Universal [115][177]
Germany [178][179]
Netherlands [180][181]
Ireland Island [182][183]
United Kingdom 31 October 2011 [114][184]
France Universal [185][186]
Italy Standard [187]
Canada 1 November 2011
  • Standard
  • deluxe
 [188][189]
United States
Universal Republic
 [111][190]
Italy 8 November 2011 Deluxe Universal [191]
Japan 25 January 2012 Standard [112]
Belgium 29 June 2012 Limited festival edition [192]
Netherlands [193]
United Kingdom 27 July 2012 Deluxe (digital reissue) Island [110]
Australia 16 November 2012 Limited Universal [194]

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