Florence Welch: 'New album Ceremonials is enormous'

Florence Welch has said that she had a "very clear" idea of how she wanted her sophomore LP Ceremonials to sound.

The 'Shake It Out' singer revealed that she learned a lot from the recording of her first album Lungs and Ceremonials, insisting that the new record needed a more cohesive sound.

"The first album, what I learned, for better or for worse, it was done over from the ages of 17 to 22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place," Welch explained to MTV News.

"And that made it the record it is, but for this one, I was very clear in the idea that I had of wanting to make something that sounded like a whole; so it had to be one producer, one place, one period of time to make it a body of work."

Welch went on to say that the resulting sound of Ceremonials is a much more grandiose one than she initially intended, adding of the sounds: "They're all pretty big. They all came out quite big. I was slightly worried, because I was like, 'All the sounds are enormous on this record.'"

Welch recently revealed that the Ceremonials album title was inspired by an art installation she saw years ago.

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