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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 10:51:01 GMT -5
Fort Knox, the two Wednesday tracks and End Credits. We knew this already. TWO Wednesday tracks? All I see it part 1 (interlude) and part 2 (end credits).
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Nov 20, 2017 10:53:46 GMT -5
Fort Knox, the two Wednesday tracks and End Credits. We knew this already. TWO Wednesday tracks? All I see it part 1 (interlude) and part 2 (end credits). Yes, my bad. End Credits is also a Wednesday track indeed. Well, then I'm only aware of 3
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Post by leron on Nov 21, 2017 11:34:14 GMT -5
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Post by AubreyOasis on Nov 21, 2017 12:20:37 GMT -5
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Post by lau on Nov 21, 2017 12:22:16 GMT -5
brightonsfinest.com/html/index.php/music/3102-noel-gallagher-s-high-flying-birds-who-built-the-moon Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Who Built the Moon? 2017 has been a strange year for the Gallagher brothers. When Oasis initially broke up, Noel was regarded as the more superior brother and “the man who wrote it all”. Yet, with the Jesus-like return of Liam Gallagher with As You Were, the emphasis seems to have switched from Noel to Liam. Of course, this hasn’t been helped by Noel calling Liam’s fans “parka monkeys” and alienating his fans with a different brand of music featuring cosmic pop and scissor players in his band. However, his third solo album, Who Built the Moon?, is arguably the finest thing he’s done since (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? and most definitely his most interesting, diverse and experimental solo record. Opening track, ‘Fort Knox’, which is inspired by Kanye West’s ‘Power’, kicks the album off in good stead. A driving cosmic pop record, with Noel’s trademark deadpan delivery keeping it somewhat grounded. The Kanye West comparison is limited, but there’s certainly an essence of The Stone Roses’ second album, Second Coming to ‘Fort Knox’ and, overall, to Who Built the Moon? itself. In fact, this does feel entirely like Gallagher’s “Second Coming” moment. It’s surely going to split his fans down the middle, that’s for sure. From this point onwards it takes off and it takes off in some style. Lead single,‘Holy Mountain’, is a screwball, wacky pop song that sounds like everything from an offering from The Vaccines’ English Graffiti, to Ricky Martin’s ‘She Bangs’, to Bryan Ferry’s ‘Let’s Stick Together’. It’s arguably the most inventive Gallagher has been since the mid-90s and, for the first time since going solo, he sounds completely different to Oasis. ‘It’s a Beautiful World’ is almost a pure prog-rock song. Of course the title of the album, Who Built the Moon? should be a clue but this sounds as much like Pink Floyd and Hawkwind as it does Oasis. Like Be Here Now, but a damn sight more listenable, ‘It’s a Beautiful World’ features Noel singing a reverb-heavy chorus of: "It's a beautiful dream, a beautiful night, a beautiful world, when we dance in the light". It’s got a lot of singalong potential, while two thirds in, French artist (and scissor-playing extraordinaire) Charlotte Marionneau launches into spoken-word. Bizarrely, it sprawls the balance between pretentiousness and commercialism quite well. There’s a grandiose atmosphere to this record, a cosmic energy if you were, that nicely links up with Gallagher’s lyrics of love and tenderness. For the first time on this record, too, this is Gallagher’s Beatles moment. ‘It’s a Beautiful World’ sounds like Revolver closer ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ with its dynamic, continuous momentum feeling like it’s never going to come to a halt until it suddenly does. You know Gallagher’s gone high art when he’s using musical progressions. ‘It’s a Beautiful World’ transitions straight into ‘She Taught Me How to Fly’, which is easily the best song on the album and where Who Built the Moon? really starts to take shape. With its propulsive chorus, dynamic space-rock aura and catchy repetition of “The one I love”, it could even be one of Noel’s finest songs. The weakest track on the album, ‘Black & White Sunshine’, begins to fall under Gallagher’s tired old tropes, but it’s still got more to it than anything on Gallagher’s last record, Chasing Yesterday. It’s just a little bit banal and feeble. Likewise, elsewhere there’s a few missteps. The two interludes on the record feel a little forced, for the first time Gallagher tipping himself over the edge of pretentiousness. It appears that Gallagher has stopped trying to please his fans and has made exactly the album that he wants to. At 50 years old, too, why not? He’s combined the best parts of Oasis with some of the most exciting aspects of 80s pop music, with a dash of 60s space-rock for good measure. He’s been knowingly ripping off The Beatles for the majority of his career but, this time, it feels different. It feels like it’s got a different personality to it, like it’s inherently a Noel Gallagher album as well. Honestly, it’s a joy of an album and one of the biggest surprises of the year. Liam may be the people’s champion nowadays but, musically, Who Built the Moon? is far beyond anything in Liam’s wildest dreams. In fact, it feels a bit dreamy. It’s a sweeping, forceful statement from Noel that he’s still got it. Liam McMillen Website: noelgallagher.com Facebook: facebook.com/noelgallaghermusic Twitter: twitter.com/NoelGallagher
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Post by Noeldemort on Nov 21, 2017 12:27:06 GMT -5
I think the more songs he put out the better it seems to be getting. It's A Beautiful World is by far my most favorite
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Post by webm@ster on Nov 21, 2017 13:09:30 GMT -5
Our editor and member Dave has this fine review for you!
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Post by revol on Nov 21, 2017 13:26:15 GMT -5
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Post by CFC2013 on Nov 21, 2017 13:28:33 GMT -5
Not bad!
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Post by carlober on Nov 21, 2017 13:34:16 GMT -5
revol, I moved your post to the Reviews thread
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Post by revol on Nov 21, 2017 13:40:09 GMT -5
revol, I moved your post to the Reviews thread Actually, please delete it. I see that the link's been already posted by someone else. Sorry!
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Post by AubreyOasis on Nov 21, 2017 15:51:32 GMT -5
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Post by His Royal Noelness on Nov 21, 2017 18:31:10 GMT -5
The reviews seem to be really good.
I'm really wondering what Pitchfork are going to say about it.
I think a 7/10 from them would be amazing!
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Post by AubreyOasis on Nov 21, 2017 18:41:34 GMT -5
The reviews seem to be really good. I'm really wondering what Pitchfork are going to say about it. I think a 7/10 from them would be amazing! I would not bet on it. Pitchfork makes a point of slagging off acts like Noel and it is what their readers expects from them. Since this album is particularly good, maybe a 6 is not out of the question, but I don't think it will get more than that.
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Post by spaneli on Nov 21, 2017 18:50:04 GMT -5
The reviews seem to be really good. I'm really wondering what Pitchfork are going to say about it. I think a 7/10 from them would be amazing! I would not bet on it. Pitchfork makes a point of slagging off acts like Noel and it is what their readers expects from them. Since this album is particularly good, maybe a 6 is not out of the question, but I don't think it will get more than that. Pitchfork gave NGHFB's a 5.7 and Chasing Yesterday a 5.9. I'm going to go out a limb and say that this album gets a 6.1.
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Post by CFC2013 on Nov 21, 2017 19:09:32 GMT -5
I wouldn't be surprised if Pitchfork shits all over the album, but I wouldn't be surprised if they slurp it up either. Stereogum should give it a nice score though.
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Post by garys on Nov 21, 2017 19:26:11 GMT -5
Just gave WBTM a proper listen...and friends - it is indeed a great time to be alive - 2 top albums from the brothers Gallagher simultaneously. The two albums together are like a modern day White Album. Cheers to the lads.
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Post by ricardogce on Nov 21, 2017 19:37:47 GMT -5
Just gave WBTM a proper listen...and friends - it is indeed a great time to be alive - 2 top albums from the brothers Gallagher simultaneously. The two albums together are like a modern day White Album. Cheers to the lads. Aye. I can't wait till WBTM hits Spotify so I can make a mashup playlist. The closest to an Oasis 2017 album.
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Post by ricardogce on Nov 21, 2017 19:39:25 GMT -5
I wouldn't be surprised if Pitchfork shits all over the album, but I wouldn't be surprised if they slurp it up either. Stereogum should give it a nice score though. I'm gonna bet on a positive Pitchfork review. Holmes' involvement and Noel's willingness to match Liam insult for insult at a time when Liam's a mainstream darling again should buy Noel some points with those useless asshats.
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Post by AubreyOasis on Nov 22, 2017 2:33:07 GMT -5
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Post by AubreyOasis on Nov 22, 2017 4:43:05 GMT -5
And this one is from 'El Pais', the biggest newspaper in Spain. I paste the Google translation below. It has been chosen record of the week. Score is 8/10
THE DISC OF THE WEEK | WHO BUILT THE MOON? Finer, but plugged into its past At 50 years old, Noel Gallagher has finally become that version of Paul Weller that many expected, but that he refused to embrace Rating: 8 out of 10
Noel Gallagher performed with his band in the famous BBC music program Later ... with Jools Holland on October 31st. The ex-leader of Oasis was presented to play two songs of his third length after leaving the group that made him a celebrity in the nineties. His had been and is still a fame forged by comforting audiences reminding them that, although everything is invented, there is still someone who can reproduce the same and make them feel that everything is still to be done. That someone is, of course, him. Well, Noel, a guy whose idea of risk had been until recently purchased Adidas Gazelle reissued in a color not available in 1972, went on stage to interpret a song called Fort Knox inspired by Power , perhaps the creative top of the rapper Kanye West, and another called Holy Mountain , that sounded like a mixture between Flamin'Groovies and Primal Scream and in whose interpretation a girl who played ... the scissors collaborated. This last detail annoyed thousands of fans of Mancunian and caused his brother Liam, with whom he maintains a relationship that is not based on indifference focuses on the most open hostility, announced that in his next concert someone would go on stage to peel potatoes.
At age 50, Noel Gallagher has finally become that version of Paul Weller that many expected, but he refused to embrace, it is not known whether due to inability or fear of alienating some fans unwilling to leave the coordinates marked by the success of the first two albums of Oasis and that, from those supersonic times, live dedicated to the thankless task of waiting for each new release of a Gallagher sound like those albums and have songs as bright as those that made them. Only the first premise was fulfilled. Now, finally, Noel makes an attempt to piss off his fans in what could be presented as a reinvention.
Although Fort Knox actually sounds more like The Chemical Brothers than Kanye West, the effort is appreciated and enjoyed. Keep on Reaching is a pop delight that includes a sampler of a woman speaking French - when Liam is likely to come on stage to recite something in Mongol - while Love is the Law is Bruce Springsteen's English cousin , It's a Beautiful World is almost synthetic pop, just modern, perfectly retro and Holy Mountain is an adhesive wonder, bright, rich and surprising. But not only does the disc work when Noel is thrown into the semi-unknown, but when he returns to more familiar pastures, the thing also engages. The Man Who Built the Moon is a theme with a soul of fraternal and cathartic classic that leads to melancholy without almost having to appeal to nostalgia. Who Built the Moon? It is, then, the first hybrid of the Gallagher factory. It pollutes less, it sounds finer, but it still does not dare to go around unplugged from its past.
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Post by monkian on Nov 22, 2017 6:41:53 GMT -5
That can't be real, surely? Every review and interview from now 'till the end of time would talk about nothing else. They're definitely real. Shows how much the reveiewers actually listen that none of them have picked up on the Liam reference, although the lyrics are quite "buried".
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Post by revol on Nov 22, 2017 7:04:34 GMT -5
I would not bet on it. Pitchfork makes a point of slagging off acts like Noel and it is what their readers expects from them. Since this album is particularly good, maybe a 6 is not out of the question, but I don't think it will get more than that. Pitchfork gave NGHFB's a 5.7 and Chasing Yesterday a 5.9. I'm going to go out a limb and say that this album gets a 6.1. I still remember their legendary review of Jet's "Shine On" -> pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9464-shine-on/
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Post by bt95 on Nov 22, 2017 7:06:20 GMT -5
Just gave WBTM a proper listen...and friends - it is indeed a great time to be alive - 2 top albums from the brothers Gallagher simultaneously. The two albums together are like a modern day White Album. Cheers to the lads. Aye. I can't wait till WBTM hits Spotify so I can make a mashup playlist. The closest to an Oasis 2017 album. If you have downloaded the files to your computer mate, they will be on your 'local files' in Spotify, so you can already make a playlist. I tried it last night: 1. Fort Knox 2. Greedy Soul 3. Holy Mountain 4. Wall Of Glass 5. Bold 6. It's A Beautiful World 7. She Taught Me How To Fly 8. You Better Run 9. Doesn't Have To Be That Way 10. Be Careful What You Wish For 11. Universal Gleam 12. The Man... 13. All I Need (Bonus: Dead In The Water) The songs are all great, but as a playlist it didn't flow brilliantly just because they are all different - although Bold into Beuatiful World worked well.
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Post by bt95 on Nov 22, 2017 7:08:38 GMT -5
That can't be real, surely? Every review and interview from now 'till the end of time would talk about nothing else. They're definitely real. Shows how much the reveiewers actually listen that none of them have picked up on the Liam reference, although the lyrics are quite "buried". In fairness though, Noel used the "Monkey Man" lyrics in 'Bag It Up'
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