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Post by PepsiNebula on May 16, 2023 22:52:49 GMT -5
Stick 'em here when you see 'em.
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Post by AubreyOasis on May 17, 2023 6:48:29 GMT -5
(Copied from the Council Skies thread)
Uncut: 8/10 "headline is noel hits his solo stride, adding experimental grace notes to soaring tunes. Final sum up says : If you ever liked Noel, you might remember why. Pretty scathing about later day oasis and his last 25 years so got the impression writer hadn't been a fan in a long time."
Mojo: 4/5 says it's a creative success and his best post-Oasis album. "It's the sound of Noel Gallagher pushing onwards while once again playing to his strengths"
Says 'Open the Door, See what you find' recalls 'Rapsberry Beret' by Prince and highlights the "soul rhythm and gospel vocal support" of INGUT. Dead to the world is his favourite in the album
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Post by defmaybe00 on May 18, 2023 4:08:17 GMT -5
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Post by seanrulesrh on May 18, 2023 4:18:15 GMT -5
Now that's a review. Interesting that he compares Open The Door, See What You Find with Champagne SuperUglyvagina. We shall see. So studio version of We're Gonna Get There is a waltz? And the opener is a dance track? So far it seems like it's gonna be a variated record.
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Post by shibs on May 18, 2023 5:17:54 GMT -5
All three reviews are pretty damn positive so far. This is going to be a looong fortnight.
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Post by AubreyOasis on May 18, 2023 6:10:07 GMT -5
Great review, now I am excited ! Wait, The Reflex is Noel ?
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Post by batfink30 on May 18, 2023 9:08:30 GMT -5
Looks like positive reviews?! I'm not feeling that positive after the singles hmm.
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Post by Lennon2217 on May 18, 2023 9:26:42 GMT -5
The Walrus was The Reflex
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Post by tiger40 on May 18, 2023 13:16:32 GMT -5
That's not a bad review, however, I'm not sure if Open The Door, see what you find can reach the dizzy heights of Champagne Supernova though. But we shall see.
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Post by uboasis on May 18, 2023 13:59:38 GMT -5
That's not a bad review, however, I'm not sure if Open The Door, see what you find can reach the dizzy heights of Champagne Supernova though. But we shall see. Not in 4 minutes it can't
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Post by The Boy Without the Blues on May 18, 2023 14:33:38 GMT -5
Are there any links for Uncut and Mojo?
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on May 18, 2023 16:35:09 GMT -5
Are there any links for Uncut and Mojo? Mojo: Quitting the dancefloor, Noel turns in the his best post-Oasis album. By Tom Doyle.
For a good while now, Noel Gallagher seems to have been keen to leave his acoustic guitar locked in its case. Arguably, the highlight of his last album, 2017's Who Built the Moon?, was strummy ballad Dead in the Water, recorded live in a Dublin radio studio and hidden away as a bonus track, like a slightly shameful secret, after his experiments with glammy stomp and trip-hop.
Gallagher's subsequent three EPs released between 2019-20 seemed to reinforce the point that he was determined to push back against what he was best at. The disco rock moves of Black Star Dancing and This Is the Place were a bit like someone deciding to put on a Hawaiian shirt that didn't really suit them. Advance warning that this iffy period might be over came last year with the release of the demoes of two songs from Council Skies: the strident guitar pop of We're Gonna Get There in the End and the almost Champagne Supernova-esque Trying to Find a World That's Been and Gone. The lyric of the latter informs the overarching sentiments of Council Skies. In the year he turns 56, Gallagher is both acknowledging that many of the places of his past are either shuttered-up or demolished -- notably, the album cover features a Moss Side roundabout that marks the place where Manchester City's Maine Road ground once stood -- while at the same time recalling his youthful early-'90s thrills of facing an unknown and possibly brilliant future.
Easy Now, with its balladeering verses bursting into singalong choruses, is stirring stuff, and highlights the inherent empathy contained within many of his best songs. A message for a troubled individual, or someone being left behind, its standout hook, "I'll be there/I'll wait for you, I swear" contains a power that will be manifestly multiplied by huge crowds singing it back at its writer.
Elsewhere, Gallagher further spotlights his newfound love for The Cure (that first surfaced with Who's Built the Moon?'s It's a Beautiful World) in the propulsive, A Forest-like Pretty Boy, which has already been remixed and rendered even more Cure-like by Robert Smith, who half-timed the tempo from Seventeen Seconds to Disintegration.
Along the way, there are stylistic diversions that are more subtle: the sould rhythm and gospel vocal support of I'm Not Giving Up Tonight; the Prince-like (specifically Raspberry Beret) shapes of Open the Door, See What You Find. Best of all is the lovely Dead to the World, with its jazzy chords and '60s filmic strings (which even Liam, on Twitter, grudgingly acknowledged with a backhanded compliment, "How can such a mean spirited little man write such a beautiful song?"). All in all, then, Council Skies is very much a creative success. It's the sound of Noel Gallagher pushing onwards, while once again playing to his strengths.
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Post by matt on May 18, 2023 16:44:58 GMT -5
Are there any links for Uncut and Mojo? Mojo: Quitting the dancefloor, Noel turns in the his best post-Oasis album. By Tom Doyle. For a good while now, Noel Gallagher seems to have been keen to leave his acoustic guitar locked in its case. Arguably, the highlight of his last album, 2017's Who Built the Moon?, was strummy ballad Dead in the Water, recorded live in a Dublin radio studio and hidden away as a bonus track, like a slightly shameful secret, after his experiments with glammy stomp and trip-hop.
Gallagher's subsequent three EPs released between 2019-20 seemed to reinforce the point that he was determined to push back against what he was best at. The disco rock moves of Black Star Dancing and This Is the Place were a bit like someone deciding to put on a Hawaiian shirt that didn't really suit them. Advance warning that this iffy period might be over came last year with the release of the demoes of two songs from Council Skies: the strident guitar pop of We're Gonna Get There in the End and the almost Champagne Supernova-esque Trying to Find a World That's Been and Gone. The lyric of the latter informs the overarching sentiments of Council Skies. In the year he turns 56, Gallagher is both acknowledging that many of the places of his past are either shuttered-up or demolished -- notably, the album cover features a Moss Side roundabout that marks the place where Manchester City's Maine Road ground once stood -- while at the same time recalling his youthful early-'90s thrills of facing an unknown and possibly brilliant future.
Easy Now, with its balladeering verses bursting into singalong choruses, is stirring stuff, and highlights the inherent empathy contained within many of his best songs. A message for a troubled individual, or someone being left behind, its standout hook, "I'll be there/I'll wait for you, I swear" contains a power that will be manifestly multiplied by huge crowds singing it back at its writer.
Elsewhere, Gallagher further spotlights his newfound love for The Cure (that first surfaced with Who's Built the Moon?'s It's a Beautiful World) in the propulsive, A Forest-like Pretty Boy, which has already been remixed and rendered even more Cure-like by Robert Smith, who half-timed the tempo from Seventeen Seconds to Disintegration.
Along the way, there are stylistic diversions that are more subtle: the sould rhythm and gospel vocal support of I'm Not Giving Up Tonight; the Prince-like (specifically Raspberry Beret) shapes of Open the Door, See What You Find. Best of all is the lovely Dead to the World, with its jazzy chords and '60s filmic strings (which even Liam, on Twitter, grudgingly acknowledged with a backhanded compliment, "How can such a mean spirited little man write such a beautiful song?"). All in all, then, Council Skies is very much a creative success. It's the sound of Noel Gallagher pushing onwards, while once again playing to his strengths.
Laughed at that quote from Liam, it's what I constantly think of Morrissey.
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Post by GlastoEls on May 18, 2023 17:14:25 GMT -5
Can’t wait for this!!
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Post by dadrocker on May 19, 2023 8:27:04 GMT -5
Stop comparing songs to Champagne Supernova, ffs.
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Post by matt on May 19, 2023 9:12:52 GMT -5
Christ, I remember fucking Wigwam from that first Beady Eye album being compared to All Around The World.
Inevitably, songs compared to great ones never end up being much use. If they're compared to relatively more obscure songs and artists (like Grant Lee Buffalo and Some Might Say), then we can stand up and take note.
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Post by thespiderandthefly on May 19, 2023 9:33:16 GMT -5
None of these reviews make sense when you put them all together. The literal title of Mojo's is about "Quitting the Dance Floor", and yet the RC review makes a point to say that the first and last songs have a "dance" feel to them....
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Post by quantum on May 19, 2023 9:41:23 GMT -5
None of these reviews make sense when you put them all together. The literal title of Mojo's is about "Quitting the Dance Floor", and yet the RC review makes a point to say that the first and last songs have a "dance" feel to them.... Also the Mojo review could have been written without access to the album! It's mostly about the singles, and very little discussion of other album tracks...
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Post by Manualex on May 19, 2023 10:19:27 GMT -5
Stop comparing songs to Champagne Supernova, ffs. All around the world has a vibe similar to Champagne Supernova Sorry I had to do it
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Post by tiger40 on May 19, 2023 13:05:57 GMT -5
That's not a bad review, however, I'm not sure if Open The Door, see what you find can reach the dizzy heights of Champagne Supernova though. But we shall see. Not in 4 minutes it can't My thoughts exactly, Champagne Supernova is a classic but we'll see if any of the songs from Noel's new album are in years to come.
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Post by defmaybe00 on May 24, 2023 6:37:14 GMT -5
4/5 on Rolling Stone as well it seems
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Post by yeayeayeah on May 24, 2023 7:13:13 GMT -5
4/5 on Rolling Stone as well it seems
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Post by thespiderandthefly on May 24, 2023 7:37:19 GMT -5
“Pretty Boy has the album’s biggest chorus” — Rolling Stone…
Do these reviewers even listen to — or understand — music?
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Post by 2nz on May 24, 2023 7:46:37 GMT -5
Reviewers are shit scared of giving either of the lads a bad review, because they sell copies of magazines.
Any of these could have been copy and pasted from the Be Here Now era on.
I think it translates to-
Solid record, loads of strings, needs a few more choruses and wouldn't it be nice if they got the band back together.
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Post by AubreyOasis on May 24, 2023 8:17:48 GMT -5
Reviewers are shit scared of giving either of the lads a bad review, because they sell copies of magazines. Any of these could have been copy and pasted from the Be Here Now era on. I think it translates to- Solid record, loads of strings, needs a few more choruses and wouldn't it be nice if they got the band back together. Actually, both brothers have had mainly average reviews in their career, as you can easily check in metacritic or anydecentmusic. WBTM was the one with the best reviews, but still far from universal acclaim. Not that it matters much anyway
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