An Evening with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

The show begins promptly at 8PM SHARP Noel Gallagher is back  but not as you know him. Gallagher returns to Philadelphia in support of his new solo album, Chasing Yesterday. Just as Gallagher could only have written late 20th century hymns like Rock 'n' Roll Star and Live Forever as a young man on the cusp of a great adventure, so he could only have written Chasing Yesterday now. There are anthems of the kind Gallagher does so well, but moments of quiet reflection too. The album is musically far-reaching and lyrically questioning, without ever taking itself too seriously. For every Oasis-styled monster, there's a free-flowing groover; for every moment of lyrical profundity, there's a nugget of throwaway absurdity. It's the sound of Noel Gallagher finding his freedom.

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