![Artwork for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's single "Holy Mountain". Image credit: Sour Mash Records / Big Brother Recordings](/media/2592/noel-gallagher-album-news-01.jpg?width=1200&height=0&upscale=false&slimmage=true¢er=0.5,0.5&mode=crop "Artwork for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's single "Holy Mountain". Image credit: Sour Mash Records / Big Brother Recordings")
Artwork for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's single "Holy Mountain". Image credit: Sour Mash Records / Big Brother Recordings
Noel Gallagher and his band the High Flying Birds have released their new single “Holy Mountain” taken from their upcoming album. The song has an accompanying music video which has a fitting psychedelic vibe to it.
Plus, with a mop-topped flute player in the background and its whole 1960s pastiche thing going on, it has a bit of Madchester band the Inspiral Carpets to it too—a band Noel used to roadie for.
The track also features Paul Weller on organ and is the first single taken from the former Oasis guitarist and songwriter’s new LP Who Built the Moon?—which is produced by David Holmes and is out on November 24.
Noel Gallagher of Oasis, with his signature Union Jack guitar. © Jill Furmanovsky
Speaking about “Holy Mountain” Noel said, “It was one of the first things David and I did on the first week of working together. I knew instantly that it was going to be the first single. There’s so much joy in it. Until the day I die, it will be one of my favourite pieces of music that I’ve ever written. It sounds great live. My kids love it, my friends’ kids all love it and I am sure ‘the kids’ will love it.”
Along with featuring Paul Weller, Noel’s new album will also feature former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, who will be playing guitar and harmonica on song “If Love Is The Law”. The tone of the album will be somewhat of a departure for Noel too, and will be a bit more electronica infused than his previous work.
![A beam of evening light hits the spot. Taken on a video shoot for one of Noel's greatest songs, "Wonderwall". © Jill Furmanovsky](/media/2593/noel-gallagher-album-news-02.jpg?width=1200&height=0&upscale=false&slimmage=true¢er=0.5,0.5&mode=crop "A beam of evening light hits the spot. Taken on a video shoot for one of Noel's greatest songs, "Wonderwall". © Jill Furmanovsky")
A beam of evening light hits the spot. Taken on a video shoot for one of Noel's greatest songs, "Wonderwall". © Jill Furmanovsky
A review of Who Built the Moon? by Frontview Magazine exalts, “The results are exhilarating. Setting the placid instrumentals and hypnotic, eastern-influenced grooves alongside gutsy balcony-shakers and widescreen, cinematic walls of sound, Who Built The Moon? is an album for the apocalypse, comforting queasy listeners with shades of the Noel Gallagher they rely on, while taking the adventurous dancing with him into the flames.”
Noel’s new album will be getting released exactly seven weeks after brother Liam Gallagher released his debut solo album As You Were. And like Liam, Noel will be taking his new album on tour, which will happen across various arenas throughout the UK and beyond in 2018.
Noel and Liam Gallagher take a break from recording in a pub near Abbey Road in 1996. © Jill Furmanovsky
Talking about the general direction of the new album David Holmes said, “People are going to be surprised. I think people love Noel and they’re desperate for him to make a really big, bold, up-tempo beast of a record – a lot of Noel’s music is quite mid-tempo. This one is fun.”
Noel is currently on tour in South America supporting U2 and spoke recently with website Rock and Pop Chile, noting about the new LP, “[Who Built the Moon?] seems to have split my fanbase in two. In the sense that all the girls love it and all the guys hate it. It just seems that way, and I’m on the side of the girls. I speak for the entire album here: the people who will like it will not just like it, they’ll love it, and people who don’t like it will hate it.” Wise words.
Check out the new single “Holy Mountain” below. You can pre-order the new album here.
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Noel Gallagher is regarded as one of the UK’s most respected musicians and the mastermind behind Britpop super group Oasis.
Oasis was an English rock music band formed in Manchester in 1991, to date the band has sold over 70 million records worldwide.
Liam Gallagher is best known as the charismatic, self-assured front man of Manchester Britpop band Oasis.
Rehearsals at the Music Bank, a regular haunt, would see Liam take pleasure in giving his famous two finger salute to trains speeding past
Noel & Liam Gallager at Air Studios, London in 1997. This image has been used as poster art for the 2016 Oasis exhibition 'Chasing the Sun'
Noel and Liam take a break from recording in a pub near Abbey Road. The atmosphere between them had been tense in the preceding weeks
I was asked to shoot a band session at Abbey Road, about a month after the media furore that was going on at the time.
Liam wearing the famous brown check coat that never seemed to come off during the tour and watching the sound-check intently as was his way.
This was the second day of a 2-day press shoot for the release of Be Here Now. It was the day Tony Blair became Prime Minister
The chalk blackboard and blood red wall were a gift to this session. Liam wrote the words himself.
George Martin was involved in the making of a TV documentary about Air Studios while Oasis were recording there
Early in October 1996 fans found out that Oasis were recording in Abbey Road, and the graffiti outside started showing Oasis content
This was taken in Schipol Airport while we waited for the luggage. I rounded them up and asked them to sit on the edge of the conveyor belt.
At the time of Wonderwall Oasis not only sounded like The Beatles they looked like them too.
This was taken during a break in filming the Oasis Wonderwall video in September 1995.
Oasis were supporting U2 in America. I think this is one of the best live images I've ever taken.
"To wear your woman's white cable knit sweater in front of a crowd of 125,000 takes some guts but Liam wore it with a swagger" Noel said
This was taken during a break in filming the Oasis Wonderwall video.
Liam downs a pint while Noel watches and waits. That sums up their working relationship!
Noel recalls "Maine Road was where we all used to go as kids. So I was standing there, trying to make sure I never forgot this moment"
Johnny Marr had given Noel one of his guitars in the early days when he was broke. Now he was able to buy any guitar that took his fancy
Taken at a full lighting and sound dress rehearsal. Liam is sitting cross-legged on the floor listening intently to his favourite band
Part of a cover shoot for Q Magazine shot backstage at The Point Dublin in March 1996 before the gig.
"I love to shoot musicians in hotel rooms, bland furniture, bland pictures on the wall - so much part of the lifestyle of a rock musician."
Taken on the video shoot for one of Noel Gallagher's greatest songs 'Wonderwall' in September 1995. A beam of evening light hits the spot.
Terrible vibes between Noel and Liam produced a wonderful set of pictures. Taken in Paris in November 1995.
Noel Gallagher of Oasis, with his signature Union Jack guitar taken at NEC in Birmingham in 1996
This was taken on the first Oasis American tour. Twin benches on the boardwalk were ideal for this back-to-back portrait of the brothers
Terrible vibes between Noel and Liam produced a wonderful set of pictures. Liam drunk, Noel thoroughly fed up, but the session continued.
Rockarchive founder, Jill Furmanovsky is a British photographer who has documented iconic rock musicians and bands from Pink Floyd to Oasis.
Jill Furmanovsky has specialised in documenting rock musicians. In this video interview she chats about her time spent with Oasis.
