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Mar 15, 2011The Last Night On Earth might leave some of Noah & The Whale's old audience behind, but the band appears to be headed in the right direction.
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Mar 11, 2011Fink's still a thoughtful guy with angst to spare but his new tunes inch happily toward pop.
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Q MagazineMay 2, 2011A high-risk strategy, then, but one that largely succeeds thanks to Fink's languid delivery. [Apr 2011, p.103]
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MojoApr 22, 2011It's a near-total reinvention, and a triumph. [Apr 2011, p.98]
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Mar 11, 2011It won't be everyone's cup of tea but this could well be a guilty pop pleasure for many.
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Mar 11, 2011Overall, a confident, clear-headed quantum leap beyond their previous work.
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Mar 11, 2011Heartfelt, spirited, lyrical, moody and mostly magnificent pop rock.
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Mar 11, 2011This one bristles with a sense of hope and possibility.
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Mar 11, 2011One might have feared the results of this latest iteration, but Last Night on Earth is a sparkling piece of work.
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Mar 11, 2011With Last Days on Earth, the persistently-versatile Noah continue to set to music those picturebooks of get-togethers, easy plateaus and break-ups that we've all got stored in our heads and add to year-on-year – and, in the process, they've managed to forge some great big tunes. More or less irresistible.
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Mar 11, 2011They've made a sincere, unironic record about how great life can be if you want it to be.
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Mar 16, 2011Once again British indie-folksters Noah and the Whale have outdone themselves and created a beautiful, inspiring album that differs from their previous two releases while at the same time maintaining classic, familiar characteristics.
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Mar 14, 2011While fans of the band's previous albums might find fault in Last Night on Earth's less cluttered, electronica-tinged songwriting, it is Fink's simple songs and flexible voice that carry the most enjoyment.
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Mar 15, 2011At times, the band appears single-minded in its determination to turn over a new rock, and the album suffers whenever Last Night on Earth focuses on presentation -- the polished production, the overdubbed handclaps -- instead of content.
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Mar 14, 2011Far from Noah & The Whale lagging behind their popular folk peers, with Last Night On Earth the band are finally punching above their weight to create a sound that's altogether new and wholly theirs.
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Mar 11, 2011Essentially this is an album about escapism, whether it's from a city (as in Tonight's The Kind Of Night) or the place in life that these characters find themselves.
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Mar 11, 2011Pairing dreamy synths and tight riffs, the result is confident and exhilarating.
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Mar 11, 2011The record sounds tailored for mass consumption, which means every song packs a melodic doozie and indomitably contrived storylines about soldiering on while our world threatens to spin off its axis.
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Under The RadarMar 22, 2011To wit, Last Night is tailor made to be a guilty pleasure album. And, in this case, that is not a bad thing. [Feb 2011, p.66]
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Apr 6, 2011Noah And The Whale would have done better to focus on the more organic sound they became quite good at than become just another forgettable crossover act.
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Mar 14, 2011Even at their best, though, Noah and the Whale struggle to overcome a trying-too-hard odor that permeates everything they do right down to that ill-advised band name.
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Apr 4, 2011Noah and the Whale have yet to find their way. Maybe by album number four, they will cease emulating and start evoking.
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Mar 29, 2011Noah and the Whale are a fine band, but they seem to have lost their direction.
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UncutMar 29, 2011The musicianship is slick enough, but if you thought their salt-of-the-earth fiddly folkie pose was a bit iffy, this is a whole new level of phoney. [Apr 2011, p.89]
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Mar 11, 2011What this album is lacking is excitement and conflict, originality and surprise.
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Mar 11, 2011Even if it's a joke, it's a joke you don't wanna hear.
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