Blog: PopMatters

Twee as folk boys go the Springsteen and Petty route, to less than stellar results. In 2009, Noah and the Whale released their sophomore album, The First Days Of Spring. To call it a maudlin album would be understating things. At least on their debut,Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down, songs like "Five Years Time" were wearing a smile on the outside, all sing-song dewy choruses and love-sickness. In contrast, the follow up album had metaphors about being a stunned fox waiting to become road kill. It should thus come...