Florence + the Machine is the recording name of former Camberwell Art School student Florence Welch and her backing band. This song about a kiss was one of the first songs that she'd ever written and became the prototpe for her dark, quirky and intense sound. It came about when Welch was experimenting in a friend's home studio. Instead of playing the drums, she pounded the studio walls with her hands. The fledgling songwriter picked out a melody on the piano even though it wasn't an instrument she knew how to play, and recorded the backing vocals first, before writing the top line. Welch recalled to The Sun February 2, 2009 "When I hear it, I'm hearing myself learning how to make a song, piece by piece."
Lungs was Florence + the Machine's debut album. Largely recorded in a disused synagogue, it was produced by Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford, who helped shape the Klaxons' sound, Steve Mackie (formerly of Pulp) and Paul Epworth, helmsman for Bloc Party and Kate Nash.
Welch explained to Mojo magazine August 2009 the album title: "I've done a lot of gigs where it's just been me singing, and playing a drum. Drums are really important to me they're like the heartbeat of music, and I think of the voice as the lungs. If you strip it down to its bare elements, that's what it is, the lungs and the heart. The rest of the band is the body."
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