Your Songs Remind Me of Swimming

Here is a piece I recently made for the Instrumental show in Seattle, based on the Florence + The Machine song, Swimming. I've been pretty obsessed with Florence since her first album, particularly for her ability to knock out catchy, rousing anthems saturated with themes of myth and folklore. She does it without being overly precious or ponderous (unlike some of her musical forbears) which is why her songs work so well. She (and her producers) are careful not to sacrifice melody for the sake of storytelling, so all the elements work together beautifully. Her music tends to be so rich in descriptive language that I'd been meaning to reinterpret one for a long time. The B-side Swimming was getting frequent rotation in my headphones, so I decided to make this the subject of the music-themed assignment.