DELUXE EDITION. This edition includes the DVD of the 45-minute film "The First Days of Spring." Noah and the Whale release the most beautiful record of the year with The First Days of Spring, the follow-up to the London-based quartet's 2008 debut Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down. The band will also debut a film directed by band member Charlie Fink, which runs the length of the album. Both album and film are filled with huge emotional power, complexity and impact; and songs that stay    [ read more ]

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After scoring support slots with the likes of Feist, Broken Social Scene, The Zutons and collaborator Laura Marling, British four piece Noah and The Whale release their debut album Peaceful The World Lays Me Down. Inspired by the classic folk acts of the sixties and seventies, the band deliver an album of cheery folk driven indie pop, often being likened to Belle and Sebastian, British Sea Power and The Magic Numbers.

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The sophomore release from Noah and the Whale. A haunting masterpiece of heartbreak and recovery. "All too rarely, an album arrives whose impact comes not from the clarity with which it communicates, but through the sense of haunted mystification it leaves the listener with: chords, dynamics, lyrics, harmonies and instrumentation all combine to deny you the reassurance of certainty, and send you, instead, tumbling back to an age, before adult rationalization and (supposed) articulacy, of feelings that you e   [ read more ]

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Noah and the Whale aren't doing anything hugely unique on their debut album Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down. You can hear bands playing a quite similar brand of strummy, plummy folk-pop on indie film soundtracks, and there are quite strong threads of Belle & Sebastian, Arcade Fire, the Magic Numbers, and a hundred other popular indie poppers running through their sound. This familiarity could breed contempt very easily, but the band manages to escape relatively unscathed and come up with an    [ read more ]

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