The problem here is that many think that he doesn't excel at this anymore. And I sympathise with that view - it's difficult to listen to songs like Lock All The Doors and You Know We Can't Go Back without thinking these are poor pastiches of classic Oasis songs.

It lacks that youthful vigour, aggression and spontaneity of old (the flat guitars and lack of Liam vocals certainly doesn't help). As a 50 year old bloke, you just can't replicate that.

Something that sounds sonically expansive yet intimate and reflective at the same time is what I want from Noel. Perhaps the best example to use would be Falling Down. Now granted, I don't think the studio version does that song full justice (too retro when it should be more modern) and many brilliant individual elements within the numerous remixes it was given adds further weight to the idea that more could have been fulfilled with that track. Yet the bare bones of that song is very melancholy and downbeat, despite it having a fantastic rhythm to it.

I don't want to listen to middle aged man rocking out having a great time. That fools nobody and just looks pathetic in my opinion. And I don't want to categorise Noel into anthemic tunes, because that doesn't do his songs justice in my opinion. The anthemic qualities were a bonus rather than the central factor in his songs; instead it was the emotional weight and depth behind those melodies. That is the key to Noel's songwriting and if he were to provide that with something more contemplative then he'd have a great album on his hands. I don't get that sense with Noel's modern day 'anthemic' songs - if they had the power and scale of earlier ones, then why have none of them been hits?

It all feels rather contrived and because of that, I'm bored by them. I'm open to any form of diversity within his music now because it might tap into a naive and innocent wonder of new sounds that can often inspire and conjure up magical moments.