{"product_id":"chasing-yesterday-lp","title":"Chasing Yesterday [LP]","description":"Opening 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":"InnerSleeve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42083136274597,"sku":"5052945018010","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/6007\/1077\/files\/4840581b84c40fb177d05fbc89ae9612_7642e7e1-1eef-43d9-b4ee-eb9ae4779ab2.jpg?v=1768999073","url":"https:\/\/www.innersleeve.com\/en-gb\/products\/chasing-yesterday-lp","provider":"InnerSleeve","version":"1.0","type":"link"}