- Record Label: Island
- Release Date: Nov 8, 2011
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Oct 17, 2011High Flying Birds is the best collection of Gallagher tunes since his Morning Glory days.
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Nov 8, 2011While his brother Liam trundles on with the morose Beady Eye, Oasis' better half delivers a bracingly kinetic solo salvo.
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Oct 18, 2011Coming from a band that derives a certain amount of its notoriety from seeming jaded and indifferent, Gallagher's solo flight is actually stunningly pure and beautifully rendered.
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MojoDec 22, 2011Here, for the first time in years, the primetime Gallagher swagger is back, in a more mature form. [Nov 2011, p.94]
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Nov 17, 2011His deftly executed--and surprisingly eclectic--debut features flourishes that Liam never would have allowed.
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Nov 11, 2011Birds isn't a commercial risk, nor will Oasis fans find it a challenge, but that doesn't take away from its smart craftsmanship.
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Q MagazineNov 8, 2011Formerly one of the finest melodicists of his generation, this assured debut secures his position as one of our finest artists. [Nov. 2011, p. 124]
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Oct 26, 2011These songs will do very nicely, thanks, as reassurance that Gallagher can still deliver evocative and memorable tunes.
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Oct 21, 2011High Flying Birds isn't a total knockout, but it should keep Liam sleeping with at least one Beady Eye open.
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Oct 18, 2011Noel has crafted one of those rare gems in an LP where every track is a potential single.
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Oct 17, 2011An unprecedented futuristic hybrid of dubstep, speedcore and math-rock, with lyrics which charge towards unexplored lexicographical horizons.
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Oct 17, 2011Noel's still got it. Only a fool would write him off.
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Nov 8, 2011Much of High Flying Birds is concerned with more understated charms.
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Nov 22, 2011Wrapped in guitars, strings, brass and reverb like a psychedelic Union Jack, he's in full flashback mode.
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Nov 8, 2011In addition to being the most sonically adventurous collection of songs Gallagher has released to date, these are also his best since (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
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Nov 8, 2011It's a decent enough album with 10 rock-solid songs that come close to but never quite reach the elevation pitched by the album's expressive title.
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Oct 17, 2011It suits him well, and he knows it.
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Nov 28, 2011The fact that this debut hews closer to the Noel we know certainly shouldn't be a disappointment.
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MagnetNov 21, 2011It's all very appealing and completely listenable, if sometimes overreliant on mid-tempo rhythms with occasional surges in passion and pacing. [#82, p.56]
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Nov 8, 2011Not as memorable as Oasis' best anthems in the '90s, or as nasally rock-ready as his brother's latest incarnation, Beady Eye, the album hovers within a melodic good-to-average middle ground.
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Oct 27, 2011So, for now we're left with another Noel Gallagher album that continues in the same trend of most of Oasis' output, trying to be something greater than it is. But hey, at least it's better than Beady Eye.
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Positive: 122 out of 146
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Mixed: 9 out of 146
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Negative: 15 out of 146
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