Florence and the Machine feed a bourgeois fantasy of 'folksiness' | Alex Niven

FATM's popularity reveals how the liberal middle classes have abandoned true counterculture for escapist vintage chicThe music world is buzzing with excitement this week. Against a backdrop of seemingly immovable industry pessimism, the release of the second Florence and the Machine album, Ceremonials, has occasioned widespread hope that its magic formula of style and kooky indie eclecticism might stem the tide of haemorrhaging sales and anoint a new PJ Harvey-style icon in the process.Yet there...

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