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" The trouble with releasing a solid debut album is that after all the applause, back-patting and standard revolutionising whistling for indie-folk&amp;#039;s eternity, you&amp;#039;ve the pressure of matching it.  And although Noah And The Whale&amp;#039;s second record (complete with pretentious movie thing) did that and more, even if it was about as depressing as Ross and Rachel&amp;#039;s on-a-break years, their third didn&amp;#039;t quite have the same sparkle and seemingly positioned them in the background of the soft-rock parade they helped to set in motion.  Now, they&amp;#039;re back; Heart of Nowhere is the longest a project has taken them, yet at ten tracks it&amp;#039;s their shortest to date. But as the buoyant opening xylophones and stirring strings of &amp;#039;Introduction&amp;#039; tell us, this is a band re-energised rather than slacking off. The peppiness flows finely into &amp;#039;Heart of Nowhere&amp;#039;, singer Charlie Fink gushing a story of wide-eyed devotion. Then... it all goes a bit Magic FM; once-Mercury-nommed singer Anna Calvi shows up to duet with Fink and it&amp;#039;s a union that sounds more creepy than cute. A faint &amp;#039;80s vibe gets intensified in &amp;#039;All Through The Night&amp;#039; and it turns out Noah And The Whale can pull off faster, louder.  Thing is, there are few too many here that are just as gung-ho but short of such staying power; &amp;#039;Still After All These Yours&amp;#039; is a sweet take on everlasting love until some excessive electric guitar solo farts on the mood. Expectedly, it&amp;#039;s the soother stuff Noah do best and when Fink&amp;#039;s gorgeous, fragile vocal really gets to shine; &amp;#039;One More Night&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Not Too Late&amp;#039; being the chief examples. It&amp;#039;s nice to have &amp;#039;em back, albeit without a bang.  Tracks to download: &amp;#039;One More Night&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;There Will Come A Time&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Not Too Late&amp;#039; If you like this, you&amp;#039;ll like: Villagers, Laura Marling, The Leisure Society Watch the Noah And The Whale &amp;#039;There Will Come A Time&amp;#039; video below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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