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Florence & The Machine

Universal ****

2009 has been a good year for Florence Welch, former art school student with a tendency for potty-mouthed works of art and a penchant for listening to the back catalogue of Kate Bush. Lungswas released earlier in the year to justified acclaim.

Now it's been upholstered in a hardbook-size four-disc package that includes the original album, a Live at Abbey Roadset, a Remixes, Covers and Raritiesdisc, and a filmed show from the Rivoli Ballroom (the DVD disc also includes four promotional videos). It's a heady, weighty offering that is perfect for the completist Florence fan as well as, perhaps, anyone in need of musical enlightenment in this X-Factorage of identikit karaoke and manufactured pop. While the album itself is enough of an original statement of intent, check out the rarities disc for covers of Beyoncé's Haloand Mystery Jets' Flakes. www.florenceandthemachine.net

Download tracks: Halo, Swimming