I knew two magpies once, and not the two tattooed onto my right forearm, by the name of Heckle and Jeckle who wanted a house to wreck. They had a song about it too, it went something like; ‘Give us a house to wreck! We’ll tear it down, by heck! We’ll pull out the pipes and tear out the walls, we’ll chop the chimney till it falls…’
Well, you get the gist, and I mention this because my brain and any ability to communicate that I have relies heavily on pop culture references, each more esoteric than the last. Which, I guess, would make them unpop culture references? Because pop is short for popular, don’t you know? Anyway, Florence + The Machine come storming in, as they do, with a song called ‘Ship to Wreck’ and I can’t help but hark back to the days of yore. Then, like an old man in his winter years I pipe up about the good ol’ days because I need to prove that I existed once and still do.
However, Florence isn’t in the business of gleefully seeking out ships to wreck, as my friends Heckle and Jeckle once were, but is instead asking herself whether she built the relationship that the song centres around only to watch her self-destructive tendencies take control and ruin it in front of her; did she build this ship to wreck? So, you know, that’s considerably sadder than two magpies in the demolition business.
Anyhoo, the song itself is another Florence + The Machine big hitter, driven along on a kind of charging melancholia both downtrodden and doing the treading itself. Plus, along with the traditional Florence + The Machine bombast, big choruses, and Welch’s soaring vocals, there’s an awesome The Cure vibe to boot, and I refuse to believe anyone ever can have a problem with anything vibing on The Cure.
‘Ship to Wreck’, it’s the fourth single to come off of F+TM’s imminent new album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, and it’s our SINGLE OF THE WEEK.
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