“Romantic Folk with a group mentality and epic scope†- NME
Noah and The Whale will release their much-anticipated debut album, Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down, this August. The band, currently on a UK headline tour that concludes at London’s Scala on June 4th, will precede the album with a single that is set to be one of the songs of the summer, 5 Years Time.
Described in The Sunday Times as “a global hit in the makingâ€, 5 Years Time is a glorious love song that blends the simple narrative and direct lo-fi charm of anti-folk artists such as Jeffrey Lewis or Jonathan Richman with the classic pop of Buddy Holly. Released on Young & Lost Club / Vertigo on August 4th.
Noah and The Whale make earnest, poetic music and their debut album, Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down, is a collection of songs that muse on the connections between love, death and time.
Though 5 Years Time is the perfect invitation into their world it is merely a piece of their puzzle. The songs move effortlessly from the epic grandeur of Arcade Fire to the intimate melancholy of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy but all with a very clear sense of Englishness.
21 year old Charlie Fink is the group's vocalist, songwriter and visionary. The songs were written and demoed in dark bedrooms. Either laments on the fears that kept him there or songs that idolised the world outside that he wished to be part of.
Blessed with an innate gift for melody and with a turn of phrase that can make the simplest sentiment seem like a revelation, Charlie honed his skills through a childhood immersed in music. The band is completed by Charlie's brother Doug on drums, Tom on fiddle, and Urby Whale on bass and harmonium.
The band's live performances have earned them a loyal following; among their multitude of headline dates they’ve also toured with Feist, Broken Social Scene and Laura Marling, who provided additional vocals on the Noah record and whose critically-lauded album Alas, I Cannot Swim, Fink produced.