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Formed in 2006, Noah and the Whale quickly gained a foothold on a London music scene variously described as anti-folk, nu-folk and folk-pop (a confusing multitude of pigeonholes) alongside like-minded souls such as Laura Marling and Emmy the Great. Both were part-time members of the band at various points, while Charlie Fink also produced Marling’s Mercury-nominated debut album, Alas I Cannot Swim. The band toured extensively, in the UK, in Europe and in the US, their superb live shows drawing much acclaim as the album, and earning the band a rabidly loyal fanbase in the process. Noah and The Whales second album The First Days of Spring is identifiably the work of the band that made Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down. But it is also a departure, a development of their debut album’s ambitions and textures. Nowhere more so than in Charlie’s use of the electric guitar, which here becomes a crucial component of the soundscape, cutting in to moments of almost pastoral quietude with scalpel-like incisions, and suggesting a battle between the search for peace and optimism and the surging anger born of loss.
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NEW ALBUM FROM COIS FHARRAIGE’S NOAH AND THE WHALE RECEIVING RAVE REVIEWS
“This is a beautiful album. Moving rather than maudlin, uplifting rather than depressing… Impressionistic symphonic-pop maestro Sufjan Stevens, back this autumn with a new album, had better watch his back. Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, cooking up his own long-gestating, musical-film project, has been served notice. Here is a song-painter blessed with huge talent” **** - The Guardian
“there’s majesty in moments like the panoramic title track, suggesting the scope and scale of The Decemberists or even early Waterboys, while lachrymose brass and a Neil Young guitar break give songs like ‘My Broken Heart’ a crucial heft.” – Hot Press
“The title track is the album opener and is an epic song laden with layers of string and brass instrumentals, and lyrics packed with allegory and hope, sung in an almost spoken-word trance; “I’m still here hoping that one day you will come back”... All in all a beautiful and accomplished second album, yet one to approach with care if you have anything close to a fragile state of the heart.” – State.ie
“Noah and The Whales second album finds a strange, uplifting beauty in heartache and loss… Seldom has twenty-something angst felt so weirdly, richly exhilarating” **** - Metro
8/10 – Cluas.com
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