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Noel Gallagher “She Taught Me How To Fly”

Noel Gallagher’s new album is a pleasant surprise. Whereas his first two solo records seemed as though he was deliberately aiming for bland professionalism because that’s just what most people do when they go solo, Who Built the Moon? has him trying on some new styles and making music that may not have worked in Oasis. “She Taught Me How to Fly” strays quite a bit from the Oasis template with its very New Order-ish guitar part, sparkly keyboards, and Gallagher singing in his softest, most feminine tone on the verses. But still, this is very much the guy who wrote Definitely Maybe – the joyful rush of the song isn’t far off from “Rock N’ Roll Star,” and the baggy and shoegaze influences that were apparent on that record in subtle ways have been shoved into the foreground.

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