If you haven't heard it yet, the above video is for Noah and the Whale's light-hearted poppy single "5 Years Time" off their debut album Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down. That catchy song just begs to be used in pretty much every movie trailer—Wes Anderson ones especially—and/or TV ad (we've already seen it in a car commercial). The folky twee British quartet plays a free show tonight at Chop Suey with openers Grand Hallway and Lindi Ortega (8 p.m. doors, 21+). A couple weeks ago we talked to singer Charlie Fink about his band's forthcoming U.S. tour.

Have you been to Seattle before?

I never have actually, and I’m very excited about it. A few years ago, I drove across the States, from New York to San Francisco, for three months. And the two locations I didn’t get to go to were Seattle and Chicago, so I’m very excited. We’re used to rainy, so if it’s rainy, it’ll feel like home.

Tell us a little bit about the band.

The drummer is my brother, so we’ve always known each other. He’s two years older than me, and the bass player is a friend of his since they were about three years old. He would come on holiday with us, and he used to play guitar and teach me Blur songs, stuff like that. So I’ve know him my whole life, too. And then Tom who plays the violin, I knew him at school, but we were never really friends at school. I got to know him after school, when he was playing gigs around London.

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And then the name of the band is a reference to Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale, but how did you decide that film captured what your band was all about?

I don’t think it captures what the band is all about. I think that what we liked about that film is the mood more than anything. We’re don’t feel like we’re necessarily making the same sort of statement as that film or whatever, or even that we can relate to that film, it’s just that the mood of it is what we’re trying to capture in our music.

What was it like working with La Blogotheque?

We’ve done three Take Away Shows with them now. We did the Paris one, we made some recordings at South by Southwest, and just recently, there’s now a video of a gig we did in Paris with Fleet Foxes and the Dodos and some other musicians. They’re just amazing those guys, absolutely amazing, they all take so much joy from it. The guy who films, Vincent Moon, when you’re playing, he just doesn’t stop dancing, even while he’s filming. That’s why the camera’s always moving about, he just can’t stop dancing.

So what should a Seattle audience expect from your show?

If they’ve heard the record, when we play live, it can be a bit more delicate, a bit more fragile maybe. Or at times, a bit more…on the record, some of it can be quite epic, quite grand, and live it’s a lot more intimate when we play. But then at times, it can be a bit punky. Expect to laugh and cry and who knows what.

Expect a life-changing experience?

[Laughs] Exactly. That would be all we can ask.