Peaceful The World Lays Me Down - Noah And The Whale

Next on my list of recent albums by Glastonbury acts list is Noah and the Whale's debut album Peaceful The World Lays Me Down. The album starts off with the catchy, fast, simple but effective Atoms in a Molecule which seems slightly childish and makes you kind of wonder why you are enjoying it so much in a same way numerous They Might Be Giants tracks do. Some songs sound a little out of tune and a bit raw, a sort of hammered farmer playing acoustic music in a field type sound (this can be seen on the next track of the album Jocasta - sounds a bit like a folky and more upbeat version of Coldplay). Overall the album is quite quirky and enjoyable but ...  Read the complete review

Like many people I'm sure, I first heard of this band when I heard '5 Years Time'. I absolutely love this song, and it inspired me to purchase their album 'Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down', which was released on August 11th 2008. Noah and the Whale don't appear to be a very well known band asides from 5 Years Time, so I thought I'd start my review by telling everyone a bit about the band. Apparently, Noah and the Whale are classed as 'Folk rock' which I suppose makes sense when listening to the album. They consist of; Charlie Fink (vocals, guitar, ukulele, harmonica ), Doug Fink (drums), Tom Hobden (fiddle) and Urby Whale (bass, harmonium) and are ...  Read the complete review

Peaceful, the World lays me down. Noah and the Whale, 2008. If you buy this album in the shops you get 12 songs, buy it on iTunes and you get 11 songs plus 3 videos....need I say more? Well yes actually because you might decide after this review that there is a bargain to be had, or, that it is not worth the money. Not a particularly well know band or album (I am the first reviewer), the band hails from London and consists of: Charlie Fink (Lead vocals, ukulele, harmonica, guitar), talented so and so! Laura Marling (Backing vocals) Doug Fink (Drums...relative maybe?) Tom Hobden (fiddle) Urby ...  Read the complete review