He's a great musician, but Noel Gallagher isn't really good at making up album titles. Chasing Yesterday seems to suggest that the old guitarist of Oasis is diving into music history on his second solo album. Now Gallagher is certainly not a very innovative musician, in his twenties he was already fully on the retrospective tour. Oasis was particularly good at processing past influences into glorious
… stadium rock. The fourth album was not called Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants (2000) for nothing. Fortunately, that title was chosen, but Chasing Yesterday does not live up to the name. This record contains a lot of surprising twists such as saxophone solos and dance rhythms. Twenty years after the biggest success of his former band, Gallagher proves to be quite fresh in the head. Of course, the new roads are not taken like a chicken without a head. Chasing Yesterday sounds like a clock, because Gallagher never does half work. Chasing Yesterday is innovative, but not earth-shattering. Just nice and solid! (JE)more