Watch Noah Full Movie Free MegavideoNoah and the Whale’s debut album Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down was chock full of charmless whimsy and derivative Wes Anderson-straddling imagery (their name was inspired by the Noah Baumbach-directed, Anderson-produced The Squid and the Whale) but it certainly arrived at the right time. In 2008, cutesy indie folk was the bomb-- thanks, Juno-- so the group’s use of the entire twee pop toolkit, banjo, ukulele, glockenspiel et al, gave them instant appeal. Five years and a couple of stylistic rebirths later, Noah and the Whale remain a big draw on the European festival circuit. But in a new era of blockbuster folk rock spearheaded by the likes of Mumford and Sons and the Lumineers, Noah's quaint leanings risk getting lost in the crush. Heart of Nowhere attempts to address this imbalanceWatch Noah Full Movie Free Megavideo

building on the mild Tom Petty-isms of their previous effort, Last Night on Earth, and taking a couple of steps closer to stadium-ready territory. Heart of Nowhere is primarily a collection of coming-of-age tales peppered with sensible advice for tormented youths. (It's accompanied by an accompanying 30-minute film of the same name directed by frontman Charlie Fink.) Fink, who moped so candidly after the disintegration of his relationship with former band member Laura Marling on The First Days of Spring, has taken to counselling kids, offering trite support: “It’s okay to not always be sure exactly where you wanna go” (“Silver and Gold”); “If you can, try and get to know your parents well” (“Now is Exactly the Times”). Watch Noah Full Movie Free Megavideo

On “Lifetime”, he hamfistedly pleads with a friend to consider the finality of marriage before taking the plunge. “Are you ready to make that call? It’s gonna be a lifetime,” he splutters, bluntly. The band shed the brittle electronic flourishes of their previous album for Springsteen-inspired drive-time with big choruses, chugging guitar lines, and thumping drums giving them more widescreen scope than ever before. But Fink is no Bruce. His foppish voice suited their sweet early recordings, but there’s real strain in his singing as he attempts to compete with the fuller orchestration. Slight redemption comes with “Still After All These Years”, whose 1980s sitcom theme-worthy cheese marks a return to the band’s goofier days. But the contrived feel of the whole thing renders the album stiff; their search for large-scale anthems and keenness to replicate a formula that doesn’t come naturally to them leaves them sounding boxed in, and imbuing Heart of Nowhere with all the grace and flexibility of four concrete pillars.Watch Noah Full Movie Free Megavideo