NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS
''CHASING YESTERDAY''
MARCH 2 2015
60:17
1 Riverman 05:41
2 In the Heat of the Moment 03:29
3 The Girl With X-Ray Eyes 03:20
4 Lock All the Doors 03:41
5 The Dying of the Light 05:11
6 The Right Stuff 05:27
7 While the Song Remains the Same 04:16
8 The Mexican 03:46
9 You Know We Can't Go Back 03:46
10 Ballad of the Mighty I 05:09
11 Do the Damage (Bonus Track) 03:08
12 Revolution Song (Bonus Track) 03:30
13 Freaky Teeth (Bonus Track) 03:53
14 In the Heat of the Moment (Toydrum Remix) (Bonus Track) 05:56
All Tracks By Gallagher
ABOUT THE ALBUM
Chasing Yesterday is the brand new album from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and follows the hugely successful debut released in 2011.
It's the first album to be produced and written by Noel and features a much broader array of instrumentation than ever before.
The result is a rich, expansive and multi-layered record. Includes the brand new single In The Heat Of The Moment and brand new single Ballad Of The Mighty I.
REVIEW/AMG
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Opening with a minor chord strummed on an acoustic guitar somewhere off in the distance, Noel Gallagher's second solo album, 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. Where 2011's HFB kept things a shade too calm -- its reserve almost seemed like a rebuke to the messy id of Gallagher's brother -- Chasing Yesterday occasionally threatens to actually rock, delivering that signature wall of guitars on the aforementioned "Lock All the Doors," mustering up a bit of old-fashioned, cowbell-driven glam boogie on "The Mexican," and quickening the tempo on "You Know We Can't Go Back," a piece of incandescent pop that plays as a resigned companion to "Step Out." Better still, the self-styled epics -- which include the first single "In the Heat of the Moment" and closing "Ballad of the Mighty I," which features grace notes from a guesting Johnny Marr -- pulsate with quiet color, as does "Riverman," a signature piece of stately late-period Beatles pop that would've been drained to grey on HFB. Here, "Riverman" breathes and sighs, taking a moment to slide into a saxophone-accentuated guitar solo straight out of a pre-punk 1976, and this masterful flair is a testament to the control and focus Gallagher displays on Chasing Yesterday. He's not racing after the past, nor is he afraid to seem floridly fussy: he's reveling in his ascendency to the position of one of rock's wise old men.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by James Christopher Monger
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.
OFFICIAL SITE
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2 In the Heat of the Moment 03:29
3 The Girl With X-Ray Eyes 03:20
4 Lock All the Doors 03:41
5 The Dying of the Light 05:11
6 The Right Stuff 05:27
7 While the Song Remains the Same 04:16
8 The Mexican 03:46
9 You Know We Can't Go Back 03:46
10 Ballad of the Mighty I 05:09
11 Do the Damage (Bonus Track) 03:08
12 Revolution Song (Bonus Track) 03:30
13 Freaky Teeth (Bonus Track) 03:53
14 In the Heat of the Moment (Toydrum Remix) (Bonus Track) 05:56
All Tracks By Gallagher
ABOUT THE ALBUM
Chasing Yesterday is the brand new album from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and follows the hugely successful debut released in 2011.
It's the first album to be produced and written by Noel and features a much broader array of instrumentation than ever before.
The result is a rich, expansive and multi-layered record. Includes the brand new single In The Heat Of The Moment and brand new single Ballad Of The Mighty I.
REVIEW/AMG
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Opening with a minor chord strummed on an acoustic guitar somewhere off in the distance, Noel Gallagher's second solo album, 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. Where 2011's HFB kept things a shade too calm -- its reserve almost seemed like a rebuke to the messy id of Gallagher's brother -- Chasing Yesterday occasionally threatens to actually rock, delivering that signature wall of guitars on the aforementioned "Lock All the Doors," mustering up a bit of old-fashioned, cowbell-driven glam boogie on "The Mexican," and quickening the tempo on "You Know We Can't Go Back," a piece of incandescent pop that plays as a resigned companion to "Step Out." Better still, the self-styled epics -- which include the first single "In the Heat of the Moment" and closing "Ballad of the Mighty I," which features grace notes from a guesting Johnny Marr -- pulsate with quiet color, as does "Riverman," a signature piece of stately late-period Beatles pop that would've been drained to grey on HFB. Here, "Riverman" breathes and sighs, taking a moment to slide into a saxophone-accentuated guitar solo straight out of a pre-punk 1976, and this masterful flair is a testament to the control and focus Gallagher displays on Chasing Yesterday. He's not racing after the past, nor is he afraid to seem floridly fussy: he's reveling in his ascendency to the position of one of rock's wise old men.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by James Christopher Monger
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.
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