thank you for this lmao, the original poll was like 1-5 / 5-10 / Disco pop so it got banishes lmao

a good solid 6 for me, i'll still listen it like 300 times tho, god knows i will *pinches bridge of nose*

The song itself is a 9/10 for me. I love the melody and think is up there with Noel's best. Lyrics are decent as well.
The production, mixing and general sound, though, are really bad – like 4 out of 10 bad. Which is a shame, giving how far that chorus could soar.

All in all, 7/10.

I am in good mood tonight and full of love so 6/10.

4/10
Good album filler and suits it's purpose as a single well by being catchy and inoffensive

7/10

Reminded me of my school reports: B+2 - could do better.

Currently has the same mode average as Pretty Boy. X

I don't really think that's the case.
In my opinion, what seems to happen is Noel, over the years and heavily influenced by the likes of Sardy, has gotten used to thinking/feeling a certain sound is the best for a certain kind of songs. We can see this approach scattered throughout some of the Oasis catalog, some of NGHFB 1, some of the EP tracks and now Easy Now.

When time comes to write/arrange/produce/mix/master such kind of songs, it's a safe move to go down the very same path that's worked before (in Noel's POV, that is).

I acknowledge singles being mixed/mastered differently than album tracks too (most of the time brighter and a bit louder, even though clearly that's not what's happening with Easy Now), but that's doesn't seem to be the case either. Noel's singles are very irregular sounding, and that's not necessarily a bad thing – The Death Of You And Me sounds great and well-balanced, Holy Mountain is ultra compressed and dirty (but it works!), Everybody's On The Run is a tad muffled and plodding and lacks separation, Riverman is extremely medium-sounding and has little to no bass at all (but also works!), In The Heat Of The Moment sounds clean and modern... and so on. Music is context. A song sound is the result of many contexts together: the writing process, the references both the artist and the producer uses, the recording, the vibe in the studio, the producing, the arranging, the mixing, the engineers themselves etc. The problem with Easy Now sounding songs lies on that they're just dated and uninteresting – and almost characterless, at this point, cause Noel's been there and done that using himself as his own reference a freaking lot.

Solid 7, bang average Noel solo tune. It's nowhere near as bad as some are saying.

I agree it sounds a tad cleaner than WBTM, but I personally don't think that cleaner = better. Holy Mountain is muddy as hell and I think that's what gives it character and colour. Easy Now just sounds bland and uninspiring, and the drums sounding terrible definitely play a big part, as you have well said.

The drums are criminally bad.

Alan White did not die for this.

No, and I don't think it's a problem with the drummer either. Both Sharrock and Stacey are excellent drummers in their own right.

You only need to hear Who Built The Moon to see that Stacey, who contributes on a good deal of those tracks with some excellent performances, doesn't lumber and plod around like on previous High Flying Birds albums.

The problem is Noel's arrangements and compositions. They are frighteningly dull. I listened to the Live Forever performance from 2021 that he did for Radio 2 and thought he'd really nailed becoming an accomplished arranger.

I was hoping something of that ethereal, dreamy nature for this album, given the fact I wasn't holding out much hope of it being any sonic masterpiece given he's producing it himself. Unfortunately, Easy Now trashes that hope and we're right back to square one to the drab dark days of Dave Sardy.

I don’t think we were teased at all with Flying on the Ground. I think it’s where it is exactly because it had nowhere else to go, not because it was a harbinger of things to come. One would think Noel would have kept it for this record if it would have fit on there.

As much as I love it, I think it’s just what Noel would call a “throw away”, nothing more nothing less.