Paul Epworth
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Sep 23, 2026
LeviHOST
So very big moment for them.
LeviHOST
Paul Epworth, the English songwriter and producer, was a major part of Lungs, producing songs such as Rabbit Heart, Cosmic Love, How Big, Blinding.
LeviHOST
Um, he's important.
LeviHOST
In 2010, the band contributed the song Heavy in Your Arms to the soundtrack for the Twilight Saga: Eclipse, also produced by Paul Epworth, also an amazing song.
LeviHOST
And following the release of that song, NME, the magazine, confirmed that Florence Welch had entered the studio to begin working on a follow-up record with Epworth.
LeviHOST
So getting into the album, uh, unlike Lungs, which she only worked with him on a few songs, Florence made all of Ceremonials with Paul Epworth.
LeviHOST
So he's credited As a producer on every single song and as a writer on most of them.
LeviHOST
For the standard album, Isabella Summers, who was the original pianist for the band, um, and also is, like, the contributor for the name Machine, 'cause she used to be called, um, the original band's name, it was just a duo between the two of them, and it was Florence Robot Isabella Machine, and then they shortened it to Florence and the Machine, 'cause that has a little bit of a better ring to it.
Ed O'BrienGUEST
that's interesting oh yeah i wonder what that is it's it is you're right it's like you know you're right when people when you when you have a commonality a shared love of music where you go deep with it those records always come up and you go like okay you feel that yeah yeah yeah yeah it's a trip right It's a trip.
Ed O'BrienGUEST
Tell me about Paul Epworth.
Ed O'BrienGUEST
Well, you know, we're like brothers.
Ed O'BrienGUEST
It's like that thing when you meet somebody and we were like, we did this three days, we were in the studio together, trialing out this mutual friend of us has this thing called the Circle Guitar, which is now out.
Janine WarrenGUEST
That's actually the ba- the music they were listening to was that kind of late '90s American noisy guitar music.
Janine WarrenGUEST
And actually, I think a lot of where that Gang of Four and Only Ones and that influence comes from is actually Paul Epworth, the producer, because that's what he was listening to.
Janine WarrenGUEST
They were his, they were his influ- They were massively influential on him-
David HepworthHOST
Mm
Janine WarrenGUEST
... those bands.
Janine WarrenGUEST
And he, if you look back at who produced the records- Apart from Franz Ferdinand, it's Paul Epworth.
Mark EllenHOST
Ah.
Janine WarrenGUEST
He produced The Rakes' first album, Bloc Party's first album, Maxïmo Park's first album-
Samuel SpencerHOST
She got addicted to crystal meth.
Samuel SpencerHOST
I spent all my childhood actor money and I had collection agents after me because I built up credit card debt." She, however, kicked crystal meth by 2001, then split up Wild Orchid, moved back home and signed up for unemployment benefits, whilst still recording music using the air miles she had clocked up in Wild Orchid to visit various producers and start working on solo material.
Samuel SpencerHOST
A few months before the band broke up, however, they had done a concert in Minneapolis alongside the Black Eyed Peas.
Samuel SpencerHOST
Backstage, her and Will.i.am got talking and Will.i.am said that the pair should collaborate at some point.
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Samuel SpencerHOST
Which is great and leaving the Neptunes could have given her opportunity to do something different.
Samuel SpencerHOST
You know, find another creative partner.
Samuel SpencerHOST
to work with, but the problem with this track is it feels like a bad impression of her work with the Neptunes and whether she or her label decided, I don't know, but somebody decided that she would work with lots of producers for this album, among them Dr Luke Max Martin, Will.i.am, Scott Storch, Raphael Sadiq, CeeLo Green, Bloodshine Avant.
Samuel SpencerHOST
Not a recipe for a cohesive album at all.
Dave AnthonyGUEST
Yeah
Wil AndersonHOST
... curse it, but Paul Epworth-
Dave AnthonyGUEST
Right
Wil AndersonHOST
... style.