- Record Label: Cherrytree/Interscope
- Release Date: Oct 6, 2009

- Summary: The second album for the band features a film directed by the band's lead singer, Charles Fink.
- Record Label: Cherrytree/Interscope
- Genre(s): Rock, Folk
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Top Track
The First Days Of Spring | |
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It's the first day Of spring And my life is starting over again Well, the trees grow The river flows And its water will wash away my sin For I do... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 15
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Mixed: 6 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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They have done a hell of a lot of growing up. An immense album.
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This is a beautiful album. Moving rather than maudlin, uplifting rather than depressing.
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The quiet simplicity of these songs is better suited to Fink’s lone voice, clear without a jumble of voices and complex harmonies, strengthening the continuity of the storytelling.
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It’s an intriguing record brimming with solid songs that only loses step by keeping to a narrow path.
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Under The RadarThe First Days Of Spring has a wonderful orchestral bent, with many tracks graced by symphonic backing that brings welcome grandeur without succumbing to cloying melodrama. [Fall 2009, p.59]
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Despite its shortcomings, The First Days of Spring marks a welcome escape from such labels as "quirky" and "twee", with a musical maturity that requires only an equivalent lyrical magic to amount to something truly special.
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At the moment, though, it appears as though this is one twee-pop album that simply doesn't pop.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Jan 10, 2014
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