A couple of months back we posted the title track from Noah and The Whale’s upcoming album The First Days of Spring. Now NPR is streaming the album in it’s entirety for your listening pleasure 6 whole days before it’s release date.

From NPR’s review:

…singer Charlie Fink’s first words set the tone for everything that follows: “It’s the first day of spring / and my life is starting over again.” From there, Fink surveys the emotional wreckage that follows a breakup, from the unwelcome arrival of solitude (“Our Window”) to ill-conceived attempts to fill the void (“Stranger”) to the slow realization that time really does heal (“Blue Skies”). For such a deliberately paced, sonically delicate record, The First Days of Spring always knows exactly where it’s going. By the time it lands at a genuine epiphany in its glorious final minute, Noah and the Whale has both told a vivid story and written a practical manual for recovery.

This is a mellow album to say the least, very few swells and not much to get the blood pumping but it’s still very enjoyable if you’re in the right mood.