May 5th 2023

This album makes me feel good

Jeckel Music

Disclaimer, I’m a Noel Gallagher fanboy. I just love what he’s achieved and his quick funny wit. Council Skies is a collection of songs that I wish he’d released years before, more for his own sake than anything.

I sense that he’s been through alot in his life and has found a way of clamping onto the emotional nerves of his life experiences and finding a way of translating them lyrically in a way that most folks can understand. He’s figured out how to interweave his personality and perspective into a moody and melodic album.

Having spent a few years touring with U2 and their nostalgia tour, he’s used his past as a muse and subject matter for this latest release. By far his best since splitting from Oasis. I hear Sgt Pepper’s Beatles influence here and there, and oddly, the Cure and a little Paul Weller dare I say. ‘Dead to the world’ is a stand out track, classic Noel Gallagher tapping into dark emotions that eveyone has experienced at some point in their lives.

Gallagher has clearly done a lot of introspection, and is writing music for himself and nobody else. I find that admirable. He speaks of Oasis in the past tense, something that had a start, middle and end. He has a brother who knows how to rattle him, in a way Liam is a polar opposite. He doesn’t appear to think deeply, he’s right in the moment with a confident swagger, a performer and a bloody good singer.

They say opposite attract. Here’s the thing.

Sadly, the next time you’ll see each other is at a funeral. Hopefully not yours or his.

— Jeckel Music (@thejeckel) March 24, 2023

I feel that Noel has said all that he’s going to say from a solo perspective, for now. I hope he proudly tours this album and then get’s back to the business of Oasis. And yes, that means having a proper, private and confidential 1:1 conversation with his brother.

If they don’t, it’ll be too late so very soon. They must re-unite for the right reasons. Not like the mess that is The Black Crowes right now. A band they toured with before for ‘The brotherly love tour’, which was ironic as the brothers Robinson despise each other and never respected each other. The re-united for an anniversary tour, and is just reeks of inauthenticity compared to their brilliant past.

I’d love to hear your comments on this important musical topic

Jesus, imaging dying at a funeral. Now that’d be… Sad!

There’s no point in them reuniting if they do it for the wrong reasons and still hate each other. Look at the awful current iteration of @theblackcrowes. Those bros despise each other, and it shows.

— Jeckel Music (@thejeckel) June 5, 2023