The Aquarian Weekly » charlie fink http://www.theaquarian.com New Jersey's Oldest Music Alt-Weekly Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:23:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Interview with Charlie Fink of Noah And The Whale: Go Majestic http://www.theaquarian.com/2009/10/27/interview-charlie-fink-noah-and-the-whale-go-majestic/ http://www.theaquarian.com/2009/10/27/interview-charlie-fink-noah-and-the-whale-go-majestic/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:59:09 +0000 John Fortunato http://www.theaquarian.com/?p=16082 Promising London-based indie folk purveyors, Noah And The Whale, led by composing guitarist Charlie Fink, deliver fragile romanticism to love-starved minions. Alongside Rain Machine (the solo premier from TV On The Radio’s lead voice, Kyp Malone), Noah’s Whale shows goodly restraint rendering their lovelorn retreats for the terminally pained.

For well-regarded ’08 debut, Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down, Fink’s Whale offered oblique tenderhearted sentimentality merging twee-pop charm with low key anti-folk sensitivity. Whimsical hand-clapped whistle-bound ukelele-based affectation, “5 Years Time,” briskly strummed Mexicali-horned anodyne, “Shape Of My Heart,” casual Sufjan Stevens/ Pedro The Lion knockoff, “2 Atoms In A…

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