Artist: Noah & The Whale
Title: Last Night On Earth
Label: Mercury
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 196kbit av.
Time: 00:33:21
Size: 49.42 mb
Rip Date: 2011-03-04
Str Date: 2011-03-07
01. Life Is Life 3:36
02. Tonight Is The Kind Of Night 3:09
03. L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. 3:47
04. Wild Thing 4:48
05. Give It All Back 2:56
06. Just Before We Met 3:37
07. Paradise Stars 1:29
08. Waiting For My Chance To Come 2:55
09. The Line 3:31
10. Old Joy 3:33
Release Notes:
In the early January of last year, Charlie Fink set to work on Noah and
the Whale's third album. Holed up in a synagogue in East London, he had
little to begin with — a few fragments, a sketch for a 10-minute song
that resembled Street Hassle, and a set of lyrics begun on a New Year's
Day train from Wales to London. But what little there was seemed to
suggest the beginnings of something quite special, something markedly
different to the songs they had written before.
The continued maturation of Noah and the Whale has been a pleasing
thing to follow — from the joyous burst of their debut, Peaceful, the
World Lays Me Down, through the lovelorn sobriety of The First Days of
Spring, it now reaches a kind of fruition on Last Night on Earth.
Last Night on Earth possesses a curiosity and a vibrancy, a romance and
a restlessness, and a clutch of songs that mark out Fink as not just as
one of the best songwriters of his generation, but also as a supremely
gifted storyteller. These are tales of youth and ageing, of optimism
and running away, as well of failure and pride. "And it feels like his
new life can start," runs the chorus of No Distance Is Too Far. "And it
feels like heaven."
The album's strong narrative thread was in part inspired by Lou Reed's
1973 album Berlin as well as Tom Waits' 1992 record Bone Machine, and a
little Arthur Russell thrown in for good measure. 2Just people songs,"
is how Fink describes it. "These are simple stories, so you could tell
them in hundreds of different ways, and the way you tell them, that's
sort of the music."
The way he tells them is at times broad-skied and anthemic —
particularly on tracks such as L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N and Tonight's The
Kind Of Night, while at others there are strokes of unabashed pop —
Life Is Life, for example, or Just Me Before We Met. And at others
still, such as on final track Old Joy, there is a sweet kind of
wistfulness. Lyrically, they range from the nostalgic to the vital,
songs charged with an urgency, a sense of movement, and an appetite for
adventure and the unknown. It is, in many senses, a true coming of age
record.
Co-produced by Fink and Jason Lader [Julian Casablancas, The Mars
Volta] in Los Angeles, Last Night on Earth features backing vocals by
Jen Turner from Here We Go Magic, and gospel vocals by the legendary
Waters Sisters, who famously provided backing vocals for Michael
Jackson's Wanna Be Starting Something. “I was teaching them the vocals
for Old Joy,” Fink recalls. “One of the sisters came in and asked for a
latte with six sugars – six sugars! — and she downed that, went in and
gave the best vocal take I've ever heard.” Elsewhere, the record
features Adam MacDougall of The Black Crowes on Moog and Rhodes, and
legendary percussionist Lenny Castro. There is a strong cinematic
element to Last Night on Earth — from the deliberately Twin Peaks air
of Wild Thing to the album's cast of richly-drawn characters. In part
this was fed by Fink's experience of directing the short film that
accompanied The First Days of Spring. "Film is such a different writing
process, it infiltrates the way I write songs," he explains. "And a lot
of them I imagined as scenes — Tonight's the Kind of Night I imagined
as this guy running away from home and getting on a bus..."
The album's title is also a nod towards Charles Bukowski's poetry
collection The Last Night of the Earth — Fink says he was attracted to
the sense of "loser's pride" in Bukowski's work. "In my head," he says,
"there is a link between Lou Reed's Berlin, and Bukowski's poetry." The
track Life Is Life, is another Bukowski reference, its title tipping
its hat to his poem The Laughing Heart — a poem whose final lines seem
to sum up this record quite perfectly: "Your life is your life," it
runs. "Know it while you have it. You are marvellous. The Gods wait to
delight in you."
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