I like the thought that from the first track people will be surprised. “I wanted to take away anything that was comfortable on this album. “Darkness On The Edge Of Town by Bruce Springsteen, Bone Machine by Tom Waits and various bits of Arthur Russell. “I’ve definitely been listening to lots of new music – new to me, anyway,” Charlie says. Doug Fink, the brother of lead singer Charlie, and Laura Marling were. ![]() Last Night On Earth also sounds different.Īdded to the mix this time around are synthesizers, fist-pumping and 70s adult rock chord changes the likes of Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen built careers on. Charlie Fink, Tom Hobden, Matt Urby Whale Owens, Fred Abbott and Michael Petulla. They’ll know what each of the characters I’m singing about looks like.” If you’re making a film, you have to have everything on screen, but with a song, people can have their own take on it. That said the studio is the place where I get the most excited. Originally with indie folk outfit Noah and The Whale, Marling split from the band before their first album release and produced a solo 2008 debut, Alas I Cannot Swim, which brought along a UK Mercury Prize nomination and set seasoned music journos eulogizing. ![]() You’re asking a listener to put it all together. Interview with Charlie Fink of Noah and the Whale on leading Irish music webzine CLUAS. Laura Marling is very much the doyenne of the UK new folk movement, already seemingly with a pedigree that defies her young years. “It’s the beautiful thing about songs,” explains Charlie, who brings the band to Birmingham’s HMV Institute tonight. ![]() for starters, and a nameless, excitable teen heading out of town on a bus, hopeful of finding the right party in Tonight’s The Kind Of Night. There’s pendulum-hipped, brown-eyed floozy Lisa from L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. Creatures most user-friendly ballad, 'Dont Ask Me Why', comes within air-kissing distance of what people are supposed to want from a female singer. THE frontman of Noah And The Whale is in an upbeat mood – and you can hear it on the band’s latest album.Ĭharlie Fink has put behind him the heartbreak of his failed relationship with singer Laura Marling, chronicled on his outfit’s second album, The First Days Of Spring, to produce the more uplifting Last Night On Earth.įor the first time, he has written about fictional characters on the record. Marling really hits her stride three tracks in.
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