Being in the audience last night at the Mercury Lounge could have felt awkward.

It was the first of a three-night stint of Noah and the Whale performances that mark the end of the band’s U.S. tour. Onstage, frontman Charlie Fink was confessing to having no one to love and captivating the audience with lyrics about the throbbing pain of separation—generally hitting home the agony of heartbreak that is a theme in the band’s second album The First Days of Spring, released Oct. 6 in the U.S.

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