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After protracted legal negotiations with EMI, Carlyle regained the rights to the album, originally called Nuzzle, and changed the title to Floreat, meaning "Let it flourish". Floreat was released in August 2011 to critical acclaim. The Independent on Sunday declared it "a classic".
Sep 5, 2011 · Floreat by Mara Carlyle, released 05 September 2011 1. But Now I Do... 2. Weird Girl 3. Bowlface en Provence 4. Pearl 5. Nuzzle 6. King 7. How it Felt (to kiss you) 8. All Will Be Well 9. Away with these Self-Loving Lads 10.
Sep 1, 2011 · Floreat witnesses the kind of blossoming its title implies. Unashamedly romantic, it’s also a vocal tour-de-force. Carlyle has a gorgeous, elastic voice capable of distractingly honeyed swoops, sweet but never cloying.
Floreat – a Latin word that translates as "let it flourish" or "let her bloom" – arrives some three years after being shelved by her former label EMI – and a whopping seven after the ...
Aug 21, 2011 · Mara Carlyle's 'Floreat': emotive songs performed affectingly. It opens quietly, with swelling strings that evoke Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave. After they give way to a jazzy percussion and wordless vocal interplay, Carlyle declares, “I used to sleep/ Too many secrets to keep”. Floreat itself was almost a secret, almost not released.
Floreat by Mara Carlyle. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Aug 18, 2011 · That’s not to say Floreat bears the hallmarks of a slightly cynical synch-friendly release, rather it seems a genuine labour of love; even the album’s title was changed from Nuzzle to Floreat, Latin for ‘let it flourish’ or ‘let it bloom’.
