Florence: 'Second album is a release'

Florence Welch has revealed that she feels relaxed about her second album.

The Florence and the Machine star feels like she has an opportunity to work on new ideas in the follow-up to her number one record Lungs, Contactmusic reports.

"The new stuff I'd call kind of dancey, but it's dark as well," she revealed.

"I don't feel pressurised at all. The live situation is similar to the record situation - I felt pressure towards the first album. The second feels like a release - I've got new ground to cover - whereas the first was just scary."

Welch continued: "The next year is just me moving on and creating something new, a clean slate to do whatever you want - so what isn't there to like about that?"

However, Welch admitted that she wants to make her next record more focused.

"It needs to be more contained," she said. "With the first album, I was excited that people wanted to work with me, so I worked with as many people as possible just to see what I could come up with. It ended up like a patchwork."

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