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On The First Days of Spring, Noah and the Whale's Charlie Fink unburdened himself about his split from Laura Marling. He's clearly over her now: Last Night on Earth froths with a fresh engagement with life and art, to the point where the band's familiar folk-rock stylings have been largely usurped by the cycling synths and puttering drum machines of retro-nuevo electropop, augmented here and there by a few well-chosen flourishes recalling the likes of Springsteen, Petty and Reed – perhaps the result of it being recorded in LA. Songs like "Wild Thing" and "Life Goes On" reflect a Bukowskian taste for feisty underdog charisma, while overall the album is split between this week's pervasive themes of change and retrospection. Overall, a confident, clear-headed quantum leap beyond their previous work.

DOWNLOAD THIS: Life Is Life; Wild Thing; Give It All Back; Tonight's the Kind of Night

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