Band of the Week: Florence + The Machine

This is some of the strangest music I've listened to in a while. Not avant garde strange, rather peculiar. It features the chanteuse Florence Welsh belting it out like there's no tomorrow, sometimes aiming for high notes and failing to reach them. They use obscure instruments such as harps, accordions and "elevator shafts and bits of metal" according to their biography. Call it "baroque pop", if you will. They won Best British Album for Lungs at the Brit Awards last night, so they are going to be pretty huge. Check out the tracks Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up), Kiss With A Fist, Dog Days Are Over and Falling. I'll keep saying it's strange, but I've been listening to this album for the last 3 days.