Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Release New Single ‘Dead to the World’ – Rolling Stone

Matt Crockett

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have released a new single “Dead to the World” and its lyric video. The song will be on her fourth studio album with the rock band. Council Skiesout on June 2 via Sour Mash Records.

In a statement, Gallagher said “Dead to the World” is “my favorite song on the album. It has this film noir vibe. It’s like nothing I’ve done before.” Very melancholic but I like it I’m a Gemini – I’m as energetic as I am depressed The trick is to meet somewhere in between and turn it into music .

The song is one of several on the LP featuring strings arranged by longtime High Flying Birds collaborator Rosie Danvers.

“Rosie understands what I do,” Gallagher noted. “Spending a weekend recording strings at Abbey Road is one of the great privileges in a musician’s life. Sounds majestic.”

Previously, the band released two songs from the album, “Easy Now” and “Pretty Boy”. Council SkiesNamed after a book by illustrator and friend of Noel’s Pete Mackie, the book explores Gallagher’s adolescence in Manchester before moving to London with his brother and band and finding great success in the early days of the Britpop era. Looking back on the period.

“It’s back to the beginning,” Gallagher said of the album in a statement. “Daydreaming, looking up at the sky, wondering what life is all about…that applies to me now as it did in the early 90s. When I grew up in poverty and unemployment, music It got me out of there.”

Recorded at Noel’s own Lone Star Sound recording studio in London, the album was produced by Gallagher and Paul “Strangeboy” Stacey and features orchestrations crafted at the famed Abbey Road Studios. Johnny Marr has appeared on three tracks. Council Skiesincluding “Pretty Boy”.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will tour in support of the album this summer. His North American dates begin June 2nd at the White River Amphitheater in Auburn, Washington, and he continues through July 15th at his MGM Music Hall in Boston’s Fenway. Metrics are set to open most of the dates.