Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Who Built The Moon? FLAC download

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Awful pressing. Off centre, warped and various clicks and pops. Two copies, both sent back for them reasons alone. As for the sound quality, non-existent. Very dissapointed with sour mash. Going digital on this one.

No Sticker on shrink wrap in my copy. I bought it in Barcelona Fnac store.

Noel Gallagher is trying ( very hard, I have to admit ) to be respected ( in time ) as Paul Weller, who tries to be godfather of whatever...One message to both of them: You cannot even polish the shoes to some decent people in music business( and there are decent people, believe it or not ). Go away and vanish! ( I know you won't, 'cause what else is there you REALLY can do ? Hardly anything ! ).Fakers, that is what you are !

go away and rearrange these 2 words you sad man. end bell

not sure why everyone is jumping up and down about sound quality on this. It sounds fine. Anyone expecting an Oasis related project to be some sort of audiophile release is dreaming.

Side 2 (dark side) is so badly off centered that I sent it back. Sound is very flat, it seems it was not at all mastered for vinyl. It is a shame really that the pressing plant that made this piece of ....... is unknown, not even the country of manufacture is mentioned. If vinyl wants to survive, many pressing plants should do a lot better. Some try hard, others don’t bother. The latter could kill the format forgood. JDNCLP27 Bar code: 5052945027012

The music is great but the sound quality is really really bad, ill need to listen on spotify to see if its just the vinyl but i suspect something more serious

It looks like the picture disc of the album and the Holy Mountain picture disc are available again at the official Noel Gallagher webstore

Same here - the quality is amazingly poor. It sounded like there is a german Schaeferhund under the needle - i checked my player several times as it varies how bad the sound is - everything was okay there - I brought the record back to the store. I hope a lot of people do ....and wait for acceptable quality !

Same issues as others are having, this pressing is pretty terrible. Pops and static. Downloaded the digital version, burned it to a CD, and THAT sounds pretty stellar! The album itself is incredible--needs to be turned up LOUD! Too bad about the vinyl though...

Just purchased your new and sealed Vinyl “Who Built The Moon?” from JunoRecords. I really disappointed and upset by recorded quality! Where is the sound, stage ? How possible to record so badly? Waist of 16.53 EUR for nothing. :((((

The copy i have is quiet, no problems at all. Some marks on the center (criss cross lines) however most picture discs i have seem to have this, i'm guessing this is from manufacturing? Great sound all round and no issues.

Not a good pressing at all. First one had one short but deep scratch on track Wednesday Pt. 1 which caused the record to skip. There were quite a lot of clicks and loud pops as well. I got another one from Noel's web store where I ordered the record. Sadly the same issues are still there. It skipped 4 times due to some gunk in the grooves left over from the pressing plant. Got most of the gunk out so it doesn't skip, but a loud pop is still heard when the needle passes the gunky point. Need to clean it better, hopefully it'll make things better. Sad, as the first two albums were excellent in terms of pressing quality.

Patti12 You are right! Very bad pressing. And what is more pissing me more, I tried to notify Noel and his record company, but no one care.

Does anyone else hear a lot of loud static hissing noise on side A? And is your copy also slightly warped?

It’s light static on my copie mate. Common among pic discs depending. Mines not slightly warped or anything top shape. I guess it depends on copies?

I think side one of mine is slightly off centre. Also lots of marks and bad sounding crackle and pops leading into the very first track.

What a thing of beauty. Great album and a great picture disc.

No listing yet for the HMV ltd edition with bonus 12"

https://www.discogs.com/Noel-Gallaghers-High-Flying-Birds-Holy-Mountain/release/11189206 It has been listed here on the above link

Do we know how many of these were released? 5000?

This could possibly be the worst sounding LP I've ever heard. An absolutely insane amount of surface noise. Popping, and there are actually a few small "bubbles" on the surface of the vinyl. Heading to the store to exchange.

Okay, so here is our third journey though the Flying Birds Record, which deserves this little humble review on a track by track basis. The tracks referenced with dates are Oasis or NHGB’s previous tracks. Some other artists may be mentioned too. So what Noel was up to in only a two year gap?We start the record with “Fort Knox”, and I immediately am taken to the days of “F**king in the Bushes” (2000) with a strange feeling that a nightmare was ordered from The Amorphous Androgynous team. Fortunately, it’s not. It mixes the previous album psychedelic singings/instrumentation and the nice dancing drumming that comes along very well with a deep bass riff. It’s a mix between “F**king…” and “Shoot a Hole into the Sun” (2015). The first single comes in. “Holy Mountain”, a very simple song with two or three chords; a catchy tune. But I think I am starting to miss the Stacey brothers from the previous record (Paul and Jeremy). The track is so over-produced that I can’t really understand what Noel and David Holmes tried to make out of this. Horns, brass, vocals so saturated that I can barely understand Noel’s diction. The drum is soaked in a mess of a brick wall of sound. Unfortunately, a good song that was completely ruined by the final mastering and the circus feeling to it. If Noel wanted to do anything different from everything before I think I might let him know I had enough of it. Let’s hope a future remix will save this. No, Noel, this is not the best you’ve done in your career by a 100 light-year travel. Get off that pedestal.The cleaner and uptempo “Keep on Reaching”, follows and I can’t believe Chris Sharrock’s mediocrity on drums are making me miss the Stacey brothers more and more. Brass again. Actually, I have nothing to do with Noel’s picks on musicians, but to see him back with Sharrock and Archer, former band mates in Oasis and also band mates of his estranged brother is awkward, to say at the least – weren’t these guys the very witnesses of the entire set back before stage back in 2009, followed up with Noel leaving the band, without any of them doing anything but watch? I perhaps am wrong to think this but it looks to me that none of these guys (Andy Bell definitely) had done anything to stand Liam down before his outburst. Why back with them? I totally miss the point, Noel. Totally. Song ends with another thousand of layers of a brick wall that will destroy your ears.“It’s a Beautiful World” is the first move to impress me really. Noel’s dirty trick of sucking out other’s stuff continues from “Chasing Yesterday” saga. This time I think it’s Peter Hook’s riffs (former New Order bassist) that have been borrowed. Noel shouts the chorus through a “megaphone” filter, there’s too much reverberation. This is where the production is messing things up. I was just saying I was having a hard time getting his diction properly heard: now I can barely hear any “S” from his mouth. An unforgivable sin from production, because it’s already a single with an excellent video and probably one of the best songs in the album.Down we go with “She Taught Me How to Fly”. This is going to be a single for sure. The same receipt of a basic four chord catchy song turned into something enjoyable. But wait. Am I hearing New Order ™ again? Noel’s being naughty. He better watches out to not get a lawsuit from Peter Hook because the latter is in a bad mood for one decade, concerning copyrights. When I thought “The Dying of The Light” was a total lift from The Verve’s “Weeping Willow” (1997), this will get stamped by me as “almost” a New Order ™ track. The production must now have a new obsession on vocals reverberation and saturation. Let the media speak evil. Before I think “Be Careful What You Wish For” is something related to the new Erasure “World Be Gone” (2017) album, this is the one which gets closer to a “Chasing Yesterday” (2015) album track, “The Right Stuff”. What I am thinking about this album is that the track durations are actually quite alright. “Black & White Sunshine” is not only a cool name for a song, but a return to the good old rock and roll and perhaps a resemblance of Oasis days and their unbeatable (and unlistenably loud) b-sides. Very good track, very good riff. Top 3 in this album.We are introduced to some experimentation which will repeat itself in “End Credits”. “Interlude” serves as a good breaker. Not too long. I get some relief from production from their decision on how loud this album is set to sound (very absurdly loud). Finally a quieter track.“If Love Is the Law” is another good track which suffers from overproduction. Nothing that could destroy the record, but God. I am missing “Chasing Yesterday” a bit, even with its flaws. The horns and brass, vocals, and every sound explode into a wall of sound you can’t distinguish what thing is what.“The Man Who Built the Moon”, the track that is incubated with something special, apart from incorporating the album’s title. A tremendous epic song, placed in the right time, placed in the right spot in the record. The overproduction tries again to kill it, but the writing is good enough to guarantee a 10 grade for this track. I am definitely can really tell you that Noel, now, here, did something different, adorable and haunting. I meant it. Damn good haunting. This leaves "The Ballad of the Might I" (2015) smashed on the floor.“Endi Credits” ends the album leaving you wanting more. It's just another half for "Interlude".I am convinced I will have to concede Noel some forgiveness for so many mistakes: Sharrock, Archer, Holmes, the overproduction that tries to ruin this album here and there, the absolutely horrible mastering which never has been good in any Oasis or any Noel records. And honestly the mastering has been always a piece of crap and perhaps I am starting to believe Noel suffers from a level of deafness to let these things go out unnoticed. Let’s just hope one of his kids starts talking about how loud this is and perhaps he will listen to them. Because he will "definitely maybe" NOT listen to any audiophile. And we're not asking for that much of dynamics...The bonus track seen so far is just a bare acoustic song with no relevance to the record at all. (“Dead in the Water”). It’s not even mixed properly, in my opinion. Surely Noel can spawn at least 5 singles out of this album, no problem.Both Liam and Noel have done alright in 2017. Liam finally matured with “As You Were”. Noel still some several steps ahead but, you Noel, you go and keep making the same mistakes over and over and Liam will catch up eventually.What I really disliked about this album is that it is how unfortunate for a huge name like Noel’s not being able to get his s**t together and fix the loudness race fetish. I don’t have much hope for the LP being quieter since none of the previous NGHFB’s records on vinyl were – they just were normalized/reduced volume flat transfers to vinyl.Update: I have struck some of the lines because I had written because I had a confusion on which drummer actually took participation in the recording process, by reading some pre-release interview. It turns out that Jeremy Stacey recorded drums for the most part of this album. However, the feeling of seeing Noel back with Gem Archer and Chris Sharrock as a live band, shocked me. I still stand up for those words that were not struck.

I agree with totally bad dynamics of the record. I do not understand the reasons why musicians do this. They are really losing their sense for quality music. All the NGHFB records have strong stigma of loudness-war. And another terrible thing is totally badly done deluxe package: half-empty sides, only with pictures, and without any lyrics. Furthermore, it is very hard to take it out of outer package. Uff.

DASiano, I get you. I did watch the Later with Jool's Holand and I couldn't believe my eyes.To make things fair, I have struck some of the lines.Some other interview had misled me to believe the Stacey's were totally gone. Perhaps, at some point.This is due to the fact the recording of this album actually started back in 2013.Way before "Chasing Yesterday", according to Wikipedia.Needs verification as it seems to be wrong.

Sharrock and Archer might be in the live incarnation of this band, but are not credited as performing musicians in the liners for this album. The Stacey brothers, however, are. Paul is credited for recording vocals and Jeremy as a drummer on all but four songs. Strange album. I need to sit with it to absorb and peel back all the layers before I can make a final determination on it. I do know I prefer it over Liam's attempt at straightforward nostalgic rock, and I usually have an appreciation for when bands and artists reach out of their comfort zones and do weird stuff like this.

"He better watches out to not get a lawsuit from Peter Hook because the latter is in a bad mood for one decade, concerning copyrights." .....XD