When we decided to put Florence + the Machine on our cover a couple years ago, the reason wasn’t the strength of her songs—she was still finishing her debut album at the time—so much as her riveting live show. Despite having nothing but a pair of promising singles to her name, the singer already seemed like a fully formed star as she played one of the main stages at Iceland’s Airwaves Festival. That feeling has only gotten stronger with time, of course, as evidenced by some of the new songs that Florence debuted at the Creators Project festival in Brooklyn this past weekend. Check them out below (via Consequence of Sound), along with our story if you’re curious about where her head was at in the final stages of recording Lungs…
