Noah & The Whale

Noah & The Whale are one of those bands that fall into a definite 'not sure about this catagory'. I'm normally decisive about my musical thoughts, not always right, but decisive. I can change my mind, but it's normally made up.
Quirky is always a hard pitch to play. There's a thin line between one man's wit and another's tedium, it's hard to stay on the right side of it all the time.
There's a sense of fun in the sound and the lyric, there's a take on drugs and drink, they sort of remind me of an English, They Might Be Giants, but there's a good reason why They Might Be Giants aren't contstantly releasing and touring, after a while they get on your nerves.
It might just be me, and I remainn to be convinced either way, but Noah And The Whale feel a bit of a single dimension, a one trick pony.
Catching them live might firm up my opinion, but thinking about it, writing this, listening to the band, I think I'm being swayed on the recorded material