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20:00 | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (UK) |
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As the lead guitarist, main songwriter, and occasional vocalist for Oasis, Noel Gallagher played a tremendous role in shaping British rock music during the 1990s and beyond. He was the brains behind the group's biggest hits, which drew equally from the riff-heavy guitar heroics of the Who and the smart, melodic pop hooks of the Beatles. Although Oasis maintained a near-permanent place in the tabloids - thanks in large part to Noel's public battles with his younger brother, Liam, as well as the wild lifestyles that both siblings led -Noel's songwriting helped maintain the band's position in the charts, too, with more than 20 songs reaching the Top Ten in England. Tensions within the group eventually reached a boiling point in August 2009, prompting Noel to leave Oasis and launch a new project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Having left Oasis the previous year after a typically turbulent, backstage row with brother Liam at Manchester's Heaton Park, the eldest Gallagher sibling's first official foray into a "solo" career took off in 2010 with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, featuring the talents of Gallagher, former Oasis keyboard player Mike Rowe, Lemon Trees drummer Jeremy Stacey, and percussionist Lenny Castro. Cut from the same arena-sized, melodic Brit-pop cloth as the band he helped bring to prominence in the early '90s, The High Flying Birds released their debut single, "If I Had a Gun," in August 2011, followed by an eponymous, full-length debut in mid-October. It reached number one in the U.K., also performing well across the globe. In 2014, the single "In the Heat of the Moment" preceded the release of The High Flying Birds' second album, Chasing Yesterday. Chasing Yesterday, echoes Oasis' second album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? - a conscious move from a rocker who's never minded trading in memories of the past. He may be evoking his Brit-pop heyday - "Lock All the Doors" surges with the cadences of "Morning Glory" even as it interpolates David Essex's "Rock On" - but it amounts to no more than a wink because Gallagher knows he's two decades older and perhaps a little wiser as well. Certainly, Chasing Yesterday is the work of a musician very comfortable with his craft. Like the first album from High Flying Birds - a largely anonymous group of pros who make no attempt to steal the spotlight from their leader - it moves deliberately, never rushing and rarely rocking, preferring to find pleasure in majesty instead of hedonism. Read more
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