If it was on HC everyone would despise it.

I don't really care for that flute, it makes me think of a marching band at a street parade.

It's not good enough to be a lead single, it's catchy enough but it doesn't have the hooks I expect from a NG song and not to mention it sounds like a 192kbp rip being played through bad speakers.

People on here love their what if scenarios. Ex falso quodlibet - it doesn't matter.

From my point of view, there is a big problem in this album. The problem is that Noel has changed entirely his method of work. It is known the talent Noel has, but is difficult even for him to change his method. He is a 50-year-old man, he used to work in other way since early 90's, and now for the last 2 years he has worked the opposite direction he used to.

For that reason I feel really pessimistic about the album. I think it will be the worst album of his solo work, and it is because of that.

Maybe if he had worked in the same way as previous years and the new psychodelic-electronic-60's french pop-whatever way, the album would have been the best album of the year (at least). But I think Chris Moyles and Noel has failed to chase that way of work.

I hope I will be wrong...

I like it, its a 7, and maybe it may still grow a bit for me, but it will not be a classic for me down the line, and I personally have many Noel songs and basically all of AYW well ahead of it. Doesn't mean I hate it or its shit. In fact I like it and its good, but I'm going to try to answer for the middle ground people here (and a bit of my own personal taste).

My biggest issue is, its just too long. I understand that if this is a top notch song for someone, it won't be too long, its less than 4 minutes! But I originally thought it was too long and still feel this way. With the song being the way it is, very little change, I'm digging it but by the last minute I still get the "Is this still going on?"

I've talked about how all the individual sounds are catchy, put them together and they work very well. But something with the production is too crackly, and I do agree, this song is kind of "just noise". Good noise, happy noise, dancey noise, but not epic classic noise.

And again, it lacks the peaks and valleys I just prefer in a song. I love the build ups in the songs and then their peaks, and then the catch your breath moment at the end. Like Champagne Supernova (Or more recently, I've All I Need). That's the kind of journey I want from a song, rather than just kind of a flat line. But again that's taste.

Now looking at it from a Gallagher historical point of view. Like me, I think many others grew up with the mid-tempo ballad and fell in love with it. And even though over the years, the new attempts at these are not up to snuff with the 90s (though really, some are still good), I think there is comfort zone but also just a genuine love for these that can never dissipate.

Songs like If I Had a Gun or Universal Gleam. They aren't Live Forevers, but fuck me give me 100 more of them. I love them too much, I can't escape that those will always be my favourite type of Gallagher song. And even if its only a decent song, the love and nostalgia will remain.

Even in comparison to the song people are most comparing it to, Round Are Way, Liam's Rooooouuuunddd Are Waaaaayy does more for me than any element in Holy Mountain. I think there is a genuine craving and comfort level for longer notes in vocals you can belt out. Its just so Gallagher!

Now that doesn't mean I am afraid of change or others should be as well. I love What a Life, Ballad of the Mighty I and It Doesn't have to Be That Way. I would love whole albums of that. I love the WBTM previews. And if anything, those are more of a change from regular Gallagher than Holy Mountain is.

So then it comes down to personal taste. Like some of you, I want change, but the change I want is different from the change you want. Give me Gallagher does Tame Impala (Like It Doesn't Have to Be That Way). Give me Gallagher does AA, that Falling Down 25 minute tune is unreal, and I listen to it the whole way through.

But HM, its fine, just not what I'm craving, and probably how others feel as well.

Very kitschy. Sounds like he’s covering a Steps song.

I'm all for Noel going in new directions - but Holy Mountain is barely a new direction. The song has the same vibes as Mucky Fingers and Do The Damage, but is better than both at least.

I do not dislike the song, but what I dislike about the song is that it's just lazy.

I'm all for Noel experimenting and changing his approach, but honestly, I just think it's a bad song.

Aside from some nice instrumentation, I think it goes nowhere, the lyrics are really that bad and the mixing doesn't sound right to me. I honestly think it's b-side material at best.

i wonder what the AA album would of sounded like?. dont think it would of been this poppy but you never know.i sorta like HM but ive not took it for a spin for about 4 days or so

The production is absolutely and utterly horrendous. And the song just doesn't hold up.