CD Review - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, (Sour Mash)
NOEL Gallagher’s first solo album moves forward from Oasis’s chugging Fosters rock, albeit with more of a baby step than a stride.
Still in thrall to Sixties psychedelia, he also edges into more adventurous places with the urgent, pacy AKA… What A Life! while nods to The Kinks take on a life of their own in Soldier Boys And Jesus Freaks and the lyrical The Death Of You And Me.
It would be interesting to see Noel step further out of his comfort zone next time around but, in round one of Noel versus Liam, it’s Noel 1 Liam 0