Florence Welch: 'I almost went pop for Ceremonials'

Florence Welch has revealed that she almost went pop for the new Florence + the Machine album Ceremonials.

In an interview with Billboard, the 'Shake It Out' singer confessed that while she is drawn to popstars like Lady GaGa and Katy Perry, she ultimately realised that she is not meant to follow a similar path.

"I love Lady GaGa and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music... So the label said, 'Do you want to go over to America to work in that scene?' And I was like, 'Yeah, OK. Maybe I could bring my own take on it'," Welch recalled.

"It got put in the diary to go out for a week, to start writing the new record. And then the diary got sent to me, and I looked at it and just went, 'No ... I can't do that. This is too weird. I can't just suddenly leave behind everything that made Lungs'."

Ceremonials will be released in the UK on October 31.

Welch recently likened new single 'Shake It Out' to a "hangover cure".

Paul Epworth, who produced the album has promised that Ceremonials has "no weak [tracks]".

Watch Florence + the Machine's video for 'What the Water Gave Me' below: