Perhaps there is justice in the fickle rock world after all. Judging by her stellar performance on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live,” it’s taken U.K. diva Florence Welch a full year to finally crack the U.S. market with “Lungs,” her truly unique debut as Florence and the Machine.

If you saw the Anne-Hathaway-hosted show — one of this season’s funniest, actually — you saw the flame-haired singer tear it up with a stomping version of “Dog Days Are Over,” recently featured in the “Eat Pray Love” soundtrack.

“Lungs” was easily the most arresting record

And Welch — who hails from a highly intellectual family — is already hard at work on the followup, which she swears will be “more meataphysical, because I want to think about things and themes that are going to be relevant forever. And you write about things you don’t understand. So every time I write a song, I think I’ve figured out how I feel about something, or figured out a piece of the world, a tiny fraction of it.”

So if you haven’t caught the “Lungs” buzz yet, hey, better late than never.