Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (album)
Occupation
Vocals, guitar, keyboard, bass, banjo: Noel Gallagher Keyboard: Mike Rowe Drums: Jeremy Stacey
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds is the first studio album by the same band and also the first solo studio album from Noel Gallagher after leaving Oasis in August 2009. It was published on 17 October 2011 at the label Sour Mash. In Gallagher's native Britain Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds topped the album charts in Germany, it came in 11th place
Formation
The album was recorded in various studios in London and Los Angeles in 2010 and 2011. It was produced by Noel Gallagher and Dave Sardy, who acted as producer already at more Oasis albums. Three of the songs on the album are older compositions that Noel Gallagher had originally written for Oasis. From (I Wanna Live in a Dream in My) Record Machine and Stop the Clocks demo versions already circulating on the Internet.
Stop the Clocks was originally recorded for the album Do not Believe the Truth, but was canceled at short notice again from the tracklist. It was also the title of best-of album by Oasis from 2006, on which the song is not represented. The third song is Dream On older origin.
The cover photo of the album was taken by photographer Lawrence Watson under the roof of a gas station in Beverly Hills with a Polaroid camera.
Style
Overall, the songs remain on Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds faithful to the Britpop sound that Gallagher also been coined at Oasis. There are also variations on the album. To be heard in the first single The Death of You and Me as blowers, which are inspired by the Dixieland style of New Orleans. The Song AKA ... What a Life! is very danceable and is supported by piano chords instead of the guitar.
Reviews
The album received a total of favorable reviews. In Metacritic Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds received a rating of 69 out of 100 possible points. The German portal laut.de awarded 4 out of 5 and called Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds " a plate full of intensity and passion." The portal Plattentests.de gave Gallagher debut 7 out of 10 and saw in the songs Everybody's on the Run, If I Had a Gun and AKA ... What a Life the highlights of the album.
Singles
The first, released 21 August 2011 single from the album was The Death of You and Me The accompanying video was filmed in Los Angeles and had already on 25 July 2011, on the website of the New Musical Express made its debut. The second single on the European market was AKA ... What a Life. In the video to the song a friend of Gallagher Comedian Russell Brand interacts with. In North America, If I Had a Gun was released as the first single, which was released in Europe on December 26, 2011 as the third single from the album. On March 12, 2012 was finally published the fourth single Dream On.