Listen to the single here and sign up for the official Video YouTube premiere here , taking place tonight at 6PM BST. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds today release new single ‘Council Skies’– the powerful title track taken from the eagerly anticipated new studio album, due for release 2nd June via Sour Mash Records.

Five singles have been released from the album so far: "Pretty Boy", "Easy Now", "Dead to the World", "Open the Door, See What You Find" and the title track "Council Skies". Speaking on the Radio X Evening Show with Dan O'Connell, Noel explained the inspiration behind the name. The disco rock moves of Black Star Dancing and This Is The Place were a bit like someone deciding to put on a Hawaiian shirt that didn’t really suit them.Alas, with Liam and Noel still scrapping, lately via the mediums of talkSPORT and Twitter, it looks like the closest we’ll get is another High Flying Birds record. Wistful and evocative, the track has layered instrumentation, including strings recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. Gallagher’s subsequent three EPs released between 2019-20 seemed to reinforce the point that he was determined to push back against what he was best at. It’s not as if his time with High Flying Birds has ever lacked success – his previous three studio albums have reached Number One in the UK – but little he’s done since Oasis’ split has left much of a footprint outside the dedicated fanbase.

Informed by his upbringing in Manchester – but recorded in his swanky new studio in London – ‘Council Skies’ is as satisfying a record as anyone could hope for from a Gallagher in 2023. Photograph: Matt Crockett ‘A chugging slice of 00s indie that seems to go out of its way to produce as generic lyrics as possible’ … Noel Gallagher. It is the first album Gallagher has recorded in his own recording studio: Lone Star Studios with string sessions taking place at Abbey Road Studios in April 2022.Young Noel Gallagher setting out on his rock'n'roll adventure back in 1992, when he was a roadie for Manchester band Inspiral Carpets. Directed by long-time High Flying Birds collaborators Dan Cadan and Jonathan Mowatt, the music video also features a cameo from another Mancunian legend… Sign up for the official Video YouTube premiere here, taking place tonight at 6PM BST.

All tracks have received critical acclaim from media and fans alike, building anticipation for the new record. This collection of songs is one of his finest post-Oasis offerings, and it feels like the album that Noel and his High Flying Birds have been aching to make'.

Produced by Noel Gallagher and longtime engineer Paul Stacey, it was released on 2 June 2023, through Gallagher's label Sour Mash Records. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Council Skies review: Oasis brother relaxes into big, bittersweet tunes". When I was growing up in poverty and unemployment, music took me out of that,” Gallagher said of the album in a statement.

FOR A GOOD while now, Noel Gallagher seems to have been keen to leave his acoustic guitar locked in its case. The new album features performances from Johnny Marr on three tracks, including the recent single Pretty Boy.All tracks are written by Noel Gallagher, except tracks 3 and 13 of the bonus CD, written by John Lennon and Bob Dylan respectively [12] Council Skies track listing No. For this new record, it was the first thing I wrote, the first thing I demoed, and the first thing I finished, so it’s only right that it’s the first thing people get to hear,” Gallagher previously said of “Pretty Boy. He added: “Top Of The Pops on TV transformed your Thursday night into this fantasy world, and that’s what I think music should be. Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net.