Matt Crockett
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds has actually dropped a brand-new single, “Dead to the World,” together with a lyric video for the track. The tune will appear on the rock band’s 4th studio album, Council Skies, out June 2 through Sour Mash Records.
In a declaration, Gallagher verified that “Dead To The World” is “by some distance my favorite tune on the album. It has this film noir vibe. It’s not like anything else I’ve ever done before. It’s very melancholic, but I like that. I’m a Gemini – I’m as up as I am down, and the trick is to meet somewhere in the middle and turn that into music.”
The tune is among a number of on the LP to include strings organized by Rosie Danvers, a veteran High Flying Birds partner.
“Rosie gets what I do,” Gallagher kept in mind. ‘Spending a weekend recording strings in Abbey Road – that’s among the terrific benefits in an artist’s life. It sounds magnificent.”
Previously, the band revealed 2 tracks off the album: “Easy Now” and “Pretty Boy.” Council Skies, called after a book by illustrator and Noel’s friend Pete McKee, discovers Gallagher recollecting about his teenage years in Manchester prior to he and his bro and their band transferred to London and struck it huge at the dawn of the Britpop age.
“It’s going back to the beginning,” Gallagher said of the album in a declaration. “Daydreaming, looking up at the sky and wondering about what life could be… that’s as true to me now as it was in the early ‘90s. When I was growing up in poverty and unemployment, music took me out of that.”
The album, taped at Noel’s own Lone Star Sound Recording Studio in London, was produced by Gallagher and Paul “Strangeboy” Stacey and includes orchestration set at the famous Abbey Road Studios. Johnny Marr appears on 3 tracks throughout Council Skies, consisting of “Pretty Boy.”
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will explore in assistance of the album this summertime. The North American dates will start on June 2 in Auburn, WA at White River Amphitheatre and continue through July 15 with a program in Boston at MGM Music Hall at Fenway. Metric is set to open most of the dates.
