Noah and the Whale: Last Night on Earth – review

(Mercury)Charlie Fink's refusal to rest on his laurels is admirable. Over the course of three albums, he has steered Noah and the Whale from winsome folk-pop through confessional misery and now to smooth and shiny drivetime rock. One might have feared the results of this latest iteration, but Last Night on Earth is a sparkling piece of work. There's a misstep in Give It All Back, which hails "the kids who believed in rock'n'roll" only to mawkishly locate them in a school assembly, but even that ...

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