New longplayers

3 March 2024

Daft album artwork designed by John Squire

Super Manchester duo LIAM GALLAGHER and The Stone Roses‘ JOHN SQUIRE have
their collaborative longplayer, simply titled LIAM GALLAGHER JOHN SQUIRE out.

Liam: “I think John’s a top songwriter. Everyone always bangs on about him as a guitarist,
but he’s a top songwriter too, man, no two ways about it as far as I’m concerned. There’s not enough of his music out there, whether it’s with the Roses or himself. It’s good to see him back writing songs and fucking good ones. The melodies are mega and then the guitars are a given. But I think even when you take all the fucking guitars off, you can play the songs all on acoustic and they’ll all still blow your mind.”

NME: “Obviously this isn’t a ‘Definitely Maybe’ or ‘The Stone Roses’ – no-one could touch those hook-laden masterpieces. As a triumph of style and mood, though, ‘Liam Gallagher John Squire’ is well worthy of their enduring legacies.” Score: 4/5.

TUTV: This is a lazy psych-blues album made by two lazy rock stars that sounds as if they made it about 30 years ago. Most tunes could be leftovers from The Stone Roses‘ 2nd and final 1994 LP Second Coming, the one on which Squire played his guitar exactly the way Jimmy Page did in Led Zeppelin for years. And Liam is Liam. Arms together on his back and letting his pipes do the talking. The two Manchester heroes just did what they wanted to do, making an album together, no more, no less than that.

Paul McCartney once sang about Silly Love Songs, our ears get 10 here. All okay songs,
No fillers, but no killers either. As much as I’m a huge Oasis and Stone Roses fan I can’t say that I needed this record, yet I played it at least 5 times this weekend. Why? Well, I have a really lazy weekend, so I listen to lazy music by lazy legends who are good at it.

Singles/clips: Just Another Rainbow / Mars To Liverpool

– JUST ANOTHER RAINBOW –

– MARS TO LIVERPOOL –

ALBUM

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