I’m a noel purist and I’m not ashamed. It’s not that I don’t like experimental music, I love it- but what I’m finding is that by having Noel ditch already written music in the studio, he may have ditched those melodies that he does so beautifully.

Why was setting sun with the chemical brothers so good??? Because it started off as a noel acoustic.

Noel's best acoustic ballad in decades. It's insane he wrote this one while he was working on the other tracks.

Succinctly put. My feelings exactly.

How can you be producing a great songwriter and essentially ditch the thing he does best? It's ridiculous. You can still experiment with production styles and have great songs at the core of it. Many have.

Well technically speaking it began as an Oasis loud rocker from the very very early 90s. Comin’ On Strong.

I think a fully acoustic album would get boring very fast. He hasn't got the guitar skills to pull off a full album that stripped down. It would get very tiresome after a few songs. His simple strumming patterns an chord progressions would wear thin pretty quickly, and then if you start adding other elements to make up for that, then you start just entering middle of the road acoustic rock territory.

If you listen to any truly classic acoustic stripped down album, it generally comes with excellent acoustic playing. Noel's not exactly Neil Young or Nick Drake is he.

This was a soundcheck no? I wonder if Mikey Rowe was just playing along, ad-libbing. Anyway, I'm going to say he did, I dont care what anyone else says!?
Beautiful song, love it already
This for me is how I fell in love with Noel's talent. Simple and yet so meaningful for unknown, magical reasons.

So I've only listened to this, and God Help Us All.

Didn't have time to give the full album a play, so will do that later.

I really, really liked this one.

Classic Noel. A touching ballad and I'm glad he won't re-record it. Also glad it's a bonus track/b-side. Just a nice little gem.

God Help Us All - I think that's great. Really like the new verse and the production (or lack thereof) on it.

Which..... started on an acoustic guitar first. There’s some interview, forgot which one, where he says he starts all the songs on an acoustic guitar and if they pass that test, they go on from there.

Don't know why people want an acoustic album or even EP, tbh.

We all know Noel can do it.

He literally has the ability to write soaring melodies and touching ballads at a whim.

I don't want him to pack an album or EP full of them. One or two on an album is fine.

Yep

Except with this album.

He's confirmed that he used electric guitar on every track. I know he likes a hyperbole every now and then, but pretty sure he also said that he didn't start any new song this time around on an acoustic, and that hardly any (if any) are used in the recordings.

However, he did say that he has since played the new songs on an acoustic, and they have passed the test.

Which, if anyone can play guitar (or even can just strum along to the basics like me) will know, is true.

Holy Mountain sounds great acoustic. STMHTF is even better. Both are really simple and perfect for beginners as well.

I haven't listened to the full album yet, but I decided to listen to this one.

Yeah, it's magical. Goosebumps-inducing.

However... I believe Noel could write a couple of songs like this one in his sleep. It's not really a negative thing, but I'm glad he's chosen to do something a bit different with this record.

I'm waiting for the calm as the storm's getting under my skin
Im trying to fix the hole in my head where the rain gets in

Who's cutting onions?