Florence + the Machine: MTV Unplugged – review

(Island)This mostly acoustic live set places Florence Welch in the middle of a bombastic conundrum. Her most recent effort, Ceremonials, suffered from being even more overblown than its more amiably large predecessor, Lungs, yet the very idea of an Unplugged album places her in danger of paring it back too far, and leaving Welch's voice exposed to the elements, which are not always kind. That's exactly how this plays out. By removing the strident, strange production values of Drumming Song or C...

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