Some Florence + The Machine hits includes You Got The Love, Heavy In Your Arms and Dogs Days.
The name The Machine is the name given to her teenage collaboration with Isabella "Machine" Summers. They performed together for some time under the name Florence Robot/Isa Machine. Later, the name was shortened to Florence And The Machine.
Florence kept the name even when Isabella Summers left the band for a while, returning later to become the regular keyboardist.
Welch said in the past that her band The Machine know and understand her creative process by claiming "I've worked with most of them for a long time and they know my style, know the way I write, they know what I want".
The band got recognized after BBC radio stations promote them on BBC Introducing, which is a showcase for unsigned or self signed artists to get recognition abroad.
Florence + The Machine have two albums - Lungs (2009) and Ceremonials (2011).
Ceremonials was produced by Paul Epworth (that also worked on Lungs) that revealed to BBC 6 Music that this new record's sound "a lot less indie and lot more soulful".
The album's name comes out to be related with all the idea of the 70's art. According to what Florence Welch said on an interview to MTV News "this big procession of kind of coquette-style hippies and all these different colored robes and masks, and it was all to do with color, really saturated, brightly colored pastas and balloons. I saw it a couple years ago, and it was called 'Ceremonials' (...) And the word sort of stuck with me, and I think the whole idea of performance,(...) there's a sense of ceremony to it."
What The Water Gave Me is the first single from Ceremonials.
The song was written by Florence Welch and Francis Anthony "Eg White". The title was decided after Welch saw a Frida Kahlo's paiting.
The singer explained the song's meaning by saying "It's a song for the water, because in music and art what I'm really interested in are the things that are overwhelming. The ocean seems to me to be nature's great overwhelmer. (...) It's about water in all forms and all bodies. It's about a lot of things; Virginia Woolf creeps into it, and of course Frida Kahlo, whose painfully beautiful painting gave me the title."
"Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
Pockets full of stones"
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