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Florence + The Machine: "Rabbit Heart" (Live on Kimmel) (Video)

9:12 a.m. · November 6, 2009 · by Nick Neyland

Florence Welch brought her Machine to Jimmy Kimmel’s show last night (Nov. 5), where she performed “Rabbit Heart” from her Lungs album. It’s been a remarkable year for Welch, who has risen from obscurity to platinum album sales and a Mercury Music Prize nomination in her native U.K.

This performance demonstrates exactly why she has become so popular—it’s a coffee table, yuppie-fied mix of predictable cues snatched from rock and soul history, with Welch’s vocals occasionally resembling the ghastly shrieking of Cranberries’ singer Dolores O'Riordan. Yes it really is that bad.