Much like buses, you wait an age for a Noel Gallagher solo album, then two come along at once. Yesterday saw the premiere of ‘The Death of You and Me’, the first single from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, due out in October, which will soon be followed by the “Kraut Rock and Space Jazz” inspired psychedelic adventure with Amorphous Androgynous sometime in 2012.
The new single sounds like the brass country cousin of 2005’s ‘The Importance of Being Idle’, which is when ‘The Death…’ may have originally been penned as the similarities are quite apparent. Not that that’s a bad thing mind, as the 2005 single was, along with ‘Falling Down’, Noel’s finest recent work.
The jingle jangle guitars contrast well against some rather morbid lyrics about “thoughts of going under” and “storm clouds sucking up my soul”. The chorus is a typically robust sing-a-long affair which eventually gives way to a joyously uplifting marching band brass section (ok, so the marching band are solely for the purpose of the video, but you get the idea).
It may not be a huge departure from what we’re used to from Gallagher senior, but that doesn’t prevent ‘The Death of You and Me’ from being a very good song which promises much from the forthcoming LP.
Keep on Keepin' on,
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