‘There Will Come a Time’ is taken from Noah and the Whale’s fourth album Heart of Nowhere, which is released today. In true NATW style, the record is accompanied by a short film directed by frontman Charlie Fink about a dystopian future when teenagers are quarantined.
Fade in. Exterior shot. Non-descript North American suburbs. A long street, lined with pristine houses and sedans, filled with people in suits and ties climbing into their cars and driving off for work. Straight cut to a train station. A bustling crowd wait impatiently as a train pulls into the platform. The doors open,...
We were very honoured to be invited to takeover part of Tom Robinson’s show on BBC 6 Music tonight. Tom and his team were celebrating Laura Marling’s forthcoming album Once I Was An Eagle with a LM-inspired playlist, and knowing just how much we love Ms Marling, they asked us to pick a few...
There is a stark contrast between the Noah and the Whale that first started as a young folk-pop ensemble with a love for elegant instrumentation (at the time probably one step too ambitious), and the solid and mature band of nowadays. It has taken a personal and tactical reassessment, years of sweat, a movie,...
Last year I went to see Noah & the Whale perform their second album First Days of Spring at the Camden Roundhouse. Their performance, like the album, was devastating. Half of the room was in tears. The gig could fairly be termed ‘a triumph’. Nevertheless I left feeling unsettled, because for their encore, Noah...
Mumford & Sons have come a long way in the past three years, from playing tiny rinkydink venues they gathered fans through word of mouth and associations with more established acts like Laura Marling and Noah & the Whale. Tonight they play the sold out Hammersmith Apollo, and trace steps the Beach Boys, Beatles...
FFS turned two last month, and while we don’t like to make a fuss, it’s made us a tad reflective. Especially Brian, who’s a sentimental sort of owl. He has been remembering all the beautiful music he’s listened to over the past couple of years and has concluded that it has made his life...
It’s the last day of voting for our Mercury spoof the Schmercury poll… Don’t miss the chance to vote for your favourite.
This weekend we launched our Schmercury Poll – FFS’s best album award, in which we’re asking you to vote for your favourite of 12 albums released in the past year. While the FFS editors were tearing our hair out, trying to whittle down the huge pile of wonderful albums released this year to our...
Not one to be left out of all this Mercury spoofing, FFS is delighted to announce this year’s Schmercury Awards shortlist. We had such a hard time whittling all the fantastic albums released this year down to just 12 that we had to have a sit down with some tea and Belle & Sebastian...
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