“St. Jude” by Florence And The Machine

"St. Jude" comes from How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, the third Florence and the Machine album, released in 2015, and it's a hushed, minimalist electropop ballad led by organ, with Florence Welch singing lead and her own backing vocals. She wrote it with James Ford and Markus Dravs produced it, with Rebecca Wood's oboe and cor anglais and Pete Harrison's bassoon on the record; Robin Baynton engineered and Craig Silvey mixed.

The lyric works through a breakup while nodding both to Jude the Apostle, patron of hopeless cases, and to the St. Jude storm. Reviewers of the album praised its sound and its ache, though some found it underwhelming. Vincent Haycock's video, drawn from Dante's Divine Comedy, follows Welch through an old town in the rain until she collapses in a field.

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