High Flying Birds: Council Skies – A genuinely good Noel Gallagher album? Who’d have thought?

Tony Clayton-LeaTony Clayton-Lea is a contributor to The Irish Times specialising in popular culture - The Irish Times - 02/06
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Council Skies
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Artist: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Genre: Pop/rock
Label: Sour Mash

God knows what it’s like for the output of the primary songwriter of a much-loved former rock band to be viewed as a byword for mediocrity, but that’s exactly what Noel Gallagher’s songs seem to have become. His three High Flying Birds albums (released in 2011, 2015, and 2017) featur...
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