{"product_id":"chasing-yesterday","title":"Chasing Yesterday","description":"Personnel: Noel Gallagher (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, Mellotron, keyboards, bass guitar, percussion, background vocals); Paul Stacey (electric guitar, Mellotron, keyboards, bass guitar); Mikey Rowe (keyboards); Jeremy Stacey (drums).\u003cbr\u003eAudio Mixer: Craig Silvey.\u003cbr\u003eRecording information: Abbey Road Studios, London, England; Strangeways Studios, London, England.\u003cbr\u003ePhotographers: Lawrence Watson; Jen Stacey.\u003cbr\u003eOpening with a minor chord strummed on an acoustic guitar somewhere off in the distance, Noel Gallagher's second solo album, Chasing Yesterday, echoes Oasis' second album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? -- a conscious move from a rocker who's never minded trading in memories of the past. He may be evoking his Brit-pop heyday -- \"Lock All the Doors\" surges with the cadences of \"Morning Glory\" even as it interpolates David Essex's \"Rock On\" -- but it amounts to no more than a wink because Gallagher knows he's two decades older and perhaps a little wiser as well. Certainly, Chasing Yesterday is the work of a musician very comfortable with his craft. Like the first album from High Flying Birds -- a largely anonymous group of pros who make no attempt to steal the spotlight from their leader -- it moves deliberately, never rushing and rarely rocking, preferring to find pleasure in majesty instead of hedonism. Where 2011's HFB kept things a shade too calm -- its reserve almost seemed like a rebuke to the messy id of Gallagher's brother -- Chasing Yesterday occasionally threatens to actually rock, delivering that signature wall of guitars on the aforementioned \"Lock All the Doors,\" mustering up a bit of old-fashioned, cowbell-driven glam boogie on \"The Mexican,\" and quickening the tempo on \"You Know We Can't Go Back,\" a piece of incandescent pop that plays as a resigned companion to \"Step Out.\" Better still, the self-styled epics -- which include the first single \"In the Heat of the Moment\" and closing \"Ballad of the Mighty I,\" which features grace notes from a guesting Johnny Marr -- pulsate with quiet color, as does \"Riverman,\" a signature piece of stately late-period Beatles pop that would've been drained to grey on HFB. Here, \"Riverman\" breathes and sighs, taking a moment to slide into a saxophone-accentuated guitar solo straight out of a pre-punk 1976, and this masterful flair is a testament to the control and focus Gallagher displays on Chasing Yesterday. He's not racing after the past, nor is he afraid to seem floridly fussy: he's reveling in his ascendency to the position of one of rock's wise old men. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45603317776671,"sku":"5052945018027","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/8762bf9c56f2dcd6ee59a1c3919c22cc.jpg?v=1777591775","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/chasing-yesterday","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}