![]() ![]() It's a nice house, tastefully decorated and furnished (a friend's girlfriend, studying interior design, did it for him), and I wonder if all the advertising deals for 5 Years Time – cars, crisps, cereal, all around the globe – have paid for it. Sitting in Fink's new home in a leafy inner-London suburb, it's hard not to think that maybe contentment has befallen him. ![]() I'd take out the booklet and write songs for those lyrics, not listening to the CD – I'd find the melody for them. They were covered in masking tape, so you wouldn't know what was in there. "When I first started writing," he says, "I'd buy packs of 10 CDs for £5. Mind you, its gaucheness is perhaps unsurprising, given that Fink has been a lyrical autodidact: he'd listen to melodies first, lyrics coming a distant second. Noah's breakthrough hit, 5 Years Time, opened with desperately unpromising lyrics: "Oh well, in five years' time we could be walking round a zoo/ With the sun shining down over me and you/ And there'll be love in the bodies of the elephants, too." Ahem. In a way that's a good thing, because once you've made a personal record, people trust you a bit more, which I think is important."įink would once have been surprised himself at the idea he would deal with themes. The third, Last Night on Earth, told short stories in song, a deliberate move away from autobiography. The second Noah and the Whale album, The First Days of Spring, dealt with his heartbreak at the end of his relationship with Laura Marling (who had sung on its predecessor, 2008's Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down). "Themes" have been Fink's big thing over the last few years. It starts off with a first song that's a melodramatic story of a kid wanting to break away from his family, basically, to acceptance of your family and who you are and who you want to be as a man." ![]() "One of the main themes, beyond nostalgia and the end of adolescence, is acceptance. And so the transition to adulthood – with marriage as one of the final tollbooths – became the central conceit of the album. Charlie Fink performs material from the new album as well as old favourites in a special live session. ![]()
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