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Noah And The Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down Album Review (2008)

Aug 20, 2008, 10:52am

Noah And The Whale has been described as many things. From the musical equivalent of a Far East 'gap year' to anti-folk heroes, one word is always present in early reviews: twee. What a wonderfully hopeless word that is. And so is the new genre of anti-folk so as to somehow distance listeners from a stereotype and make a new band credible to a new more 'hip' audience. How can something that feels and sounds similar to folk music be the opposite? Let's be sensible about this. The band led by singer and guitarist Charlie Fink and most [...]

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