More broadly, Welch seems to be looking forward to a second run at the "handmade, personal, rough around the edges" record that made her a star aged 23. "When you're young you're so unaware of what you're doing, or where it will go or how it will last, or honestly, if it will be taken seriously – especially as a young woman," she says. "It's so easy to go back and see the cracks in your work. You go back and think, urgh, I would have done this better, or I would have done that differently."
Listening to Lungs now, 15 years on from that "messy, chaotic period of time" when she was breaking through, Welch feels she can almost "hear, sonically, where the pressure starts building up…" A bit like reading an old diary, I suggest? "It's exactly like that! I think it's just that psychological thing of knowing when Florence and the Machine was starting to pick up the pace. To be able to go back and revisit it from a more established place… it's sort of healing, in a way."
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