‘Who Built The Moon?’
New Album Out Now
Via Sour Mash / Caroline Australia
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★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Independent
★★★★ Q
“Noel’s best album since ‘…Morning Glory’” ★★★★ NME
“There’s both energy and nous in these songs” ★★★½ – Bernard Zuel, Rolling Stone Australia
“A radical departure from his ‘90s rock sound, incorporating everything from trip-hop beats to female backing vocals and choirs, with lush, multi-layered orchestration. It’s big and it’s beautiful.” -Kathy McCabe, The Daily Telegraph
“Unabashed and full of hope… vulnerable, and that’s a powerful thing.” – STACK
“Inspired… it’s his boldest work yet” – The Music
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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have released their keenly anticipated new album Who Built The Moon? via Sour Mash / Caroline Australia. While flowing from the same, molten core of melody, songwriting craft and towering self-belief, Who Built The Moon? alters the legendary singer-songwriter’s course following a bracing, two-year creative collaboration with renowned producer, DJ and composer, David Holmes. Who Built The Moon? is the keenly anticipated follow-up to the platinum-selling Chasing Yesterday (2015).
Bursting bubbles of perception, drilling dynamite into cracks between past and present and painting a daring portrait of the artist as a free man, Who Built The Moon? gathers vocalists and guest musicians from around the world to breathe life into 11-tracks finely poised between experimental and a jukebox of ageless influence. Meeting to work in Belfast and London, Gallagher and Holmes tuned into French psychedelic pop as much as classic electro, soul, rock, disco and dance on a cultured adventure into recorded sound.
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“People are going to be surprised. I think people love Noel and they’re desperate for him to make a really big, bold, up-tempo beast of a record – a lot of Noel’s music is quite mid-tempo. This one is fun.” – David Holmes (Producer)
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How would Gallagher respond to control room commands to: “Stop ‘playing’ guitar!” and “Play me a guitar solo you can dance to!” Secure in the knowledge that the man challenging him had a vision to match his undimmed ambition, he entered the same, inventive space. The Man Who Built The Moon crystallises an outsider’s view of the partnership, flooded with lush orchestration and a sense of looming drama. It is the sound of an experienced songwriter supported by an accomplice similarly striving meticulously for perfection.
On blue-touch-paper track, Fort Knox, barely a note is sung by Gallagher, instead toying with euphoric incantations, while It’s A Beautiful World bubbles with progressive, ambient electronica. Black & White Sunshine’s 60s, psychedelic pop DNA canvasses for more traditionalist votes while Holy Mountain is a game of ‘spot the obscure sample’ amidst a joyous wall of sound. Symptomatic of the unhurried back and forth between him and Holmes.
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