I do know what you mean, that was my first reaction. Having listened to it a few times I’m much less concerned.

Would be smarter to upload it on Liam's channel I think 

No it's just you.... the Kermit days are gone.

I wish they'd stop editing his vocals so much to sound smooth. His vocals live are better than his studio takes these days which I never thought I'd say. You just know when he sings "dream" there will be a rasp.

Not saying there's anything wrong with the vocals in the snippet, they sound fine so far but just something I've noticed since he's gone solo.

From what I gathered unfortunately it’s pretty much an industry standard, to smooth everyone’s voice. I don’t think it’s depends on producer or anyone

This for example, so much more personality and energy in his voice compared to the album.

I've always said Dig Out Your Soul were some of my favourite vocals on an album, Sardy got them absolutely spot on. Agree with people challenging him to do better takes also, his vocal on the opening verses of C'mon You Know are shocking.

Out of interest what are your favourite 3 album vocals since he's gone solo? Be interesting to see if we have the same idea on how he should sound.

Liam's best vocals for a studio album were, in my opinion, on SOTSOG and DOYS. But it is known that nowadays the voices of any singer are altered. For example also Miley Cyrus who is today one of the best female singers in the world from a technical point of view and with a very powerful voice, live it sounds a thousand times better than on record. Same thing is happening with Liam. And personally I won't complain too much if the album version isn't that great, as a live recording will definitely come along that will far surpass the album version and we'll probably all listen to that.

I don't mind the effects used on Liam's voice, I think BE showed that he does need some enhancement to sound right but I agree with people who say there needs to be a bit more quality control. He's inconsistent from one day to the next and I remember reading an interview from 2005 with a guy who helps Liam record some demo's in the studio for DBTT where he said it took Liam at least 5 takes to start sounding like himself which Gem backed him up on saying 'he's always like that the first few takes'. He says now that he does everything in one or two takes and it shows at times with them having to patch up some parts his performance so i'd like it if he took a bit more time with each song.

While his live performances have improved a lot since 2014 for me his studio performances have been pretty similar ever since the start of Beady Eye. I remember part of the excitement for every new release used to be because he sounded pretty different on every record from SOTSOG to DGSS but he's been on roughly the same level for years now and that little clip of the new song sounds exactly like a take from COYK.

His DOYS performances were heavily processed but he sounds like he should do on that record and I'd imagine it's because they worked to get the best performance from him for each song. I'm sure he's still capeable of sounding like that in the studio but it's about getting enough takes to mash together the best performances from him and having a producer who uses the tools to make him sound like he should. I've got no complaints about how he sounds on all his solo records, but I think they could do a bit better.

Great. There's also time for a nice guitar solo and a nice rock outro

In 1997, we sighed with relief at a song that short!