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Florence: New Single Is Like A Hangover Cure

15 September 2011

The singer tells Xfm the inspiration behind Shake It Out...

Florence Welch from Florence and The Machine has been telling Xfm about her new single Shake It Out, claiming the songwriting process can be compared to a really good hangover cure.

Speaking to Mary Anne Hobbs on Music:Response last night (September 14), Flo explained: "I wanted to just shake something out, shake out these regrets, shake out these things that haunt you. It was one of those songs that came in about half an hour and when you've got a hangover, it is almost like a hangover cure. You're like, thank you!"

However, she added: "I don't want everyone to think that I always write songs with a hangover! Cause I don't, I really don't. But with this one I have to say there was a bit of one lurking in my mind as I wrote it. It was like I was trying to write a hangover cure."

You can listen to the whole interview below.

Florence + The Machine's second album Ceremonials is released on October 31, while Shake It Out is available to download right now from http://florenceandthemachine.net. You can hear the track here: