BBC Radio 1 asked a bunch of the greatest artists of the moment to share which one has been their favourite album of the decade.

Florece picked Arcade Fire’s Funeral.  Here are her reasons:

“It’s maybe not defined the decade, but for me on hearing that it just choked me in some way.

It really kind of opened up my idea that pop music or contemporary music could be – so orchestral and grand, but at the same time tough. It was all kinds of things.

I remember sitting on my bed having to listen to it all the way through, you can’t just have it on in the background. I was really swept away by it.”

You can listen to her here .

It seems I can’t find the video when she was receiving her award, but I found this where Florence talks at the backstage just right after it.

I just received this email about an interview with Florence last week – check it out!

I host Canada’s only all-UK music radio show & podcast, part of which includes doing interviews (eg, La Roux, Arctic Monkeys, Doves, Friendly Fires, tons more…)

Anyhoo I understand she can be rather shy and not say much, but we had a pretty good discussion on tons of topics.

Here’s hoping you could post the link below to the site.
Flo interview with Tara O.

“At times he got on my nerves, like all artists who think themselves loftier or more profound simply because they didn’t know what electricity is.”

Observed through the eyes of Max Frisch’s tirelessly theoretical Walter Faber in 1957, some things never change. Though when referring to Florence Welch, perhaps switch “at times” for “every bloody time her sub-Evanescence squawl blares from the radio”. Queen of all that’s supposedly hip and ethereal, and so unrestrainedly passionate that she just can’t help but scale speaker stacks because “flight is what I aspire to!”, Florence listens to music through a Walkman. Well of course she bloody does.

“I can show it to you,” she says, digging through a gaping handbag to find a battered CD player. “Not like a tape player, but a Walkman. This is how I listen to music.” Surely that means you have to carry around a lot of CDs? “Yeah,” she says, producing Sonic Youth’s Goo and a still shrink-wrapped Nina Simone compilation. “But I can’t fucking work iPods, any kind of technology past the 90s seems to break on me.”

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