Chasing Yesterday marks a new chapter and sound for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
It's the first album to be produced as well as written by Noel and
features a much broader array of instrumentation than ever before; the
result is a rich, expansive and multi-layered record, drawing from a
range of disparate influences - from west coast rock to classic
rock'n'roll and even some space jazz (!) - whilst still being very
obviously a completely cohesive body of work. On producing the album,
Noel said:
"It
was a major pain in the arse. It's not that I've ever had people
telling me what to write or what direction to go in, but managing
sessions from one end of the week to the other proved extremely
difficult. I had all these people looking at me and saying: 'right, what
are we doing today?' I was making the whole thing up as I went along."
The
first single to be taken from the album will be, 'In The Heat Of The
Moment.' This hypnotic track was inspired by a documentary in which an
astronaut said that going into space for the first time feels like
touching the face of God. "If that's not an opening line for a song I don't know what is" said Mr Gallagher.
