Noah and the Whale | Pop review

Somerset House, LondonAs any pop fan who has lived through heartbreak knows, it isn't your friends who enfold and console you in times of trouble, it's music. For how many people has Noah and the Whale's second album, The First Days of Spring, served as a shoulder to cry on since its release last August? Its 12 songs may be rooted in frontman Charlie Fink's misery over a certain break-up (from Laura Marling), but their melancholy sentiments are expressed in a language general enough that they co...

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