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Noah & The Whale
Noah & The Whale


Background information
Origin Twickenham, London, United Kingdom
Genre(s) Indie Folk
Years active 2006—present
Label(s) Vertigo Records
Mercury Records
Cherrytree Records
Associated acts Jesse Quin & The Mets
Laura Marling
Johnny Flynn
Emmy the Great
Pull Tiger Tail
Slow Club
Members
Charlie Fink
Tom Hobden
Urby Whale
Fred Abbott
Former members
Laura Marling
Doug Fink
Emmy the Great
Jack Hamson



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James: 'Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter Because Of iTunes'

April 15, 2010
James: 'Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter Because Of iTunes'James frontman Tim Booth says the band are releasing two mini-albums instead of a full record partially to cater for the shorter attention spans of music consumers in the digital age.

The indie veterans release their first mini-album, 'The Night Before', on Monday (April 19th) and will follow this up with 'The Morning After' later this year.

Explaining their reasoning behind the dual release, Booth told the BBC: “We live in an age of iTunes where people don't seem to be listening to albums any more. Attention spans are getting shorter.”

Booth continued that despite the short length of the records, the band have been prolific in the number of songs they've churned out.

“We wrote 120 songs,” he added. “Normally we can only fit one or two slow pieces on an album without bringing it down too much. This time we said, let's do a whole mini album of slow pieces.

“We are going in a room next week for five days and improvising and recording a more mellow album. It's a bit scary. I haven't written any lyrics and I've got five days in which to come up with them.”

(by Scott Colothan)



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