Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday (2015) [Japan] iTunes M4AVBR Beolab1700

Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday [Japanese Deluxe Edition] (2015) iTunes M4AVBR Beolab1700



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Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
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Artist...............: Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds
Album................: Chasing Yesterday
Genre................: indie-rock
Year.................: 2015
Source...............: iTunes
Version..............: M4A
Channels.............: Stereo Average 256kbps
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Tracklisting
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1. “Riverman” 5:41
2. “In the Heat of the Moment” 3:29
3. “The Girl with X-Ray Eyes” 3:20
4. “Lock All the Doors” 3:41
5. “The Dying of the Light” 5:11
6. “The Right Stuff” 5:27
7. “While the Song Remains the Same” 4:16
8. “The Mexican” 3:46
9. “You Know We Can’t Go Back” 3:46
10. “Ballad of the Mighty I” 5:15

Japanese deluxe edition bonus tracks
11. “Do the Damage” 3:10
12. “Revolution Song” 3:32
13. “Freaky Teeth” 3:54
14. “In the Heat of the Moment” (remix) 5:58
15. “Leave My Guitar Alone” 3:09

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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.

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