Album: Noah and the Whale

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"Everyone has one chance to fuck up their lives.."

The First Days Of Spring breaks my heart every single time I listen. At first, I thought it was the type of music that would happily send me to sleep-with its gentle vocals and non offensive melodies. But it contains far too much emotion for this. All it does is make me toss and turn thinking about how I never want to feel as shit as Charlie Fink did when he wrote these 11 tracks. In all honesty I don't think I have ever heard such brutal honesty, most people aren't willing to expose themsleves without the safety blanket of metaphors and clever rhetoric. Laura Marling must be really something.

"This is the last song I write while still in love with you..."

Noah and the Whale must be standing around wondering how they got jipped...fellow London folk scensters Mumford and Sons have stolen their lime light and their girl.

Noah and the Whale-I Have Nothing (mp3)

Laura Marling-Goodye England (Covered in Snow) (mp3)

The First Days of Spring - A Film By Noah And The Whale from charlie fink on Vimeo.

Mumford & Sons

"It was not your fault but mine, and it was your heart on the line. I really fucked it up this time, didn't I my dear."

The London folk scene is out of control. I've already expressed my love for Johnny Flynn and of course Laura Marling. Out of the same city comes Mumford & Sons and their absolutely delicious song Little Lion Man.

I first noticed these guys on Sydney blog Only An Earthling and it only took exactly 31 seconds for this track to sweep me away. This is when Marcus Mumford's vocals jump in and join the guitar, double bass, piano, bass drum and banjo and the party really gets started. Sure, its a morose sort of party filled with more painful emotion than most artists can fit in a whole album. But I wouldn't have it any other way.

Mumford & Sons-Little Lion Man [mp3]