Come on, is this what you want? 'Cause you're driving me away
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful is the third studio album by the English indie rock band Florence + the Machine. It was released on 29 May 2015 through Island Records.Four singles were released for the album: "What Kind of Man", "Ship to Wreck", "Queen of Peace" and "Delilah".
Tracklist:
- "Ship to Wreck" (3:54)
- "What Kind of Man" (3:36)
- "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" (5:34)
- "Queen of Peace" (5:07)
- "Various Storms & Saints" (4:09)
- "Delilah" (4:53)
- "Long & Lost" (3:15)
- "Caught" (4:24)
- "Third Eye" (4:20)
- "St. Jude" (3:45)
- "Mother" (5:49)
Did I trope too much? Am I losing touch? Did I build a ship to wreck?
- Deliberately Monochrome: The cover is black and white.
- Everything Is an Instrument: Apparently ''How Big, How Blue..." uses the sounds of their instruments burning- they caught fire where they were being kept.
- Lighter and Softer: This album is lighter than Ceremonials.Ceremonials was so fixated on death and water, and the idea of escape or transcendence through death, but the new album became about trying to learn how to live, and how to love in the world rather than trying to escape from it.
- Literal Split Personality: "Ship to Wreck" has a passive Florence and a destructive Florence struggling to contain each other during the video.
- Longest Song Goes Last: "Mother" ends the album and is the longest at 5:49.
- Ms. Fanservice: Florence is briefly topless in the ones for "What Kind of Man" and "Long & Lost" and spends half the music video for "Ship to Wreck" in nothing but a lacy red bra and skinny jeans.
- The Oner: Although they do cut between them, the music video for "Ship to Wreck" consists almost entirely of fairly longish tracking shots following her through the house.
- One-Word Title: "Delilah", "Caught" and "Mother".
- Outliving One's Offspring: "Queen of Peace" which is (on the surface) about the royal couple losing their only son in a battle which they ultimately won.
- Photos Lie: Averted in "Queen of Peace", the feuding families definitely aren't happy about Florence's marriage, to the point that they aren't even smiling in the photo
. - Pyrrhic Victory: Referenced in "Queen of Peace".His only son, cut down but the battle won
Oh what is it worth, when all that's left is hurt - Talky Bookends: The videos for "What Kind of Man" and "Queen of Peace/Long & Lost".
