Noah & The Whale to release debut album

Noah & The Whale, currently in the charts with their '5 Years Time' single, will release their debut album, 'Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down', on 11th August 2008.

Described in The Sunday Times as “a global hit in the making”, the single 5 Years Time is a glorious love song that blends the simple narrative and direct lo-fi charm of anti-folk artists such as Jeffrey Lewis or Jonathan Richman with the classic pop of Buddy Holly. Released on Young & Lost Club / Vertigo on August 4th, the single has been made a Record of the Week and A-Listed on Radio 1 and Radio 2, and weeks ahead of release is already racing up the charts as download only (#20 at the time of writing).

Album tracklisting:
2 Atoms In A Molecule; Jocasta; Shape of My Heart; Do What You Do; Give A Little Love; Second Lover; 5 Years Time; Rocks And Daggers; Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down; Mary; Hold My Hand As I’m Lowered.

21 year old Charlie Fink is the group's vocalist, songwriter and visionary. The songs were written and demoed in dark bedrooms. Either laments on the fears that kept him there or songs that idolised the world outside that he wished to be part of. Blessed with an innate gift for melody and with a turn of phrase that can make the simplest sentiment seem like a revelation, Charlie honed his skills through a childhood immersed in music. The band is completed by Charlie's brother Doug on drums, Tom on fiddle, and Urby Whale on bass and harmonium. The band's live performances have earned them a loyal following; among their multitude of headline dates they’ve also toured with Feist, Broken Social Scene and Laura Marling, who provided additional vocals on the Noah record and whose Mercury Music Prize nominated album Alas, I Cannot Swim, Fink produced.