Wild Young Hearts by The Noisettes

Wild Young Hearts, the second album from London's Noisettes, came out on Vertigo in the UK on 20 April 2009 and on Mercury in the US that September, and it finds the band leaning hard into soul, all sunny swing and Shingai Shoniwa's big, bright voice. Jim Abbiss produced, with Shoniwa singing and playing bass, Dan Smith on guitar and Jamie Morrison on drums.

"Don't Upset the Rhythm (Go Baby Go)" was the breakthrough, a number two hit on the UK Singles Chart that finally won the band nationwide recognition, and the title track and "Never Forget You" also went out as singles, the last of them the one the countdowns picked up. A fourth, "Every Now and Then", was planned and then scrapped. What's the Time Mr Wolf? came before it, and Contact followed.

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