2024-03-07 19:15:59
Of course we’re not dealing with the best album since Revolver to do – but the former probably has Stone Roses-Guitarist John Squire, following a long break, has written music for Liam Gallagher that is as convincing as his solo career has not been able to offer for some time.
Hands up who, in view of the absurdly full-bodied announcements made in advance of the cooperation between the two UK legends, would not rather come up with a veritable nonsense instead of the one cited as a reference Beatlescentury work.
But actually convinced Liam Gallagher & John Squire Surprisingly solid without really raising false expectations, as the opening shows that it wants to set the mood Raise Your Hands skillfully explains where the journey of the two veterans leads: With banal lyrics, the duo skilfully serves generic, 60s-affinous Britpop rock’n’roll with little originality but a good feel for catchy melodies and the entertainment value in the momentum, which rumbles along calmly, catchy and familiar, a bit of bar piano sprinkled in and whatnot Lyla appears in older and more exalted lead guitar. That’s okay!
And Greg Kurstin, for once, doesn’t ruin the production with an overly pleasing polished gloss, even if his sound for the album is anything but dirty or exciting, while the mix (at least in the digital version) feels like it lacks any dynamic range.
With such a predisposition, the record quickly slows down into the digestible mid-tempo, but Squire has consistently written solid songs there that suit Gallagher better than many of the things he delivered on his solo albums.
Mars to Liverpool adds regarding a bit of psychedelic dreaminess from them Stones or The Soundtrack of Our Lives into the luxuriant chorus, One Day at a Time leans back even further. I’m a Wheel wants to be a relatively heavy, limping blues, even if the chorus can’t handle the modular archetype.
In Just Another Rainbow The hallucinogenic veil lies over a piece that, in aesthetic terms, feels like a missing link between Don‘t Believe the Truth and Dig out Your Soul offers – but instead of Noel’s genius he chooses a neat Madchester doze including a detailed, charismatic solo – where Liam Gallagher & John Squire generally like a good B-side collection of the late ones Oasis would feel if their songs from the second row at the time hadn’t still had a penchant for secret classics.
On this debut, it’s often more the basic attitude that sticks than concrete riffs or hooks – but it’s still authentic fun while you’re consuming it. No matter if the Hendrix tribute Love You Forever continues into the 70s, Make It Up As You Go Along With its acoustic lightness, despite the ballad-like hippie touch, remains lyrically in attack position, You’re Not the Only One strumming the reins with a pounding roadhouse piano, pulling the reins tighter to nod his head or the run-of-the-mill bagatelle I’m So Bored does his title too much credit and Mother Nature’s Song forgiving and pleasantly so softly embedded a pleasing longing (“The melodies are beautiful/ The chords sublime/ Listen to mother nature’s song“) hugged.
Liam Gallagher & John Squire As a competent fan pleaser, he never gets ahead of himself because of his nonsensical nature Revolver-Name-dropping (which of course makes sense because every record with Gallagher involvement comes before the Fab Four bowed) and apart from that it is perhaps not an album per se that inspires enthusiasm. But one that uses old-fashioned genre clichés with conservative skills and no frills, while hardly doing anything outstanding or doing anything wrong. Yes, this full-bodied pairing just works – I’d love to have more of it!
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