STACK #200 Jun 2021

MUSIC FEATURE

Y ou’d think languishing in label hell for seven years through the late aughts would kill one’s career momentum, but The Veronicas powered through to deliver 2014’s self-titled coup de grace. Seven years after that, the Origliasso sisters have built that momentum into a fever for new music, culminating as a split personality double album. The second half, Human, comes in July, but here on Godzilla they deliver all the muscle that implies. Savage guitars, curly dance anthems and schoolyard bops cover enough ground that it feels curated from dozens of ideas into a rock-solid cross- section of their best ones. Thank Godzilla we don’t have to wait another seven years for more. Jake Cleland THE VERONICAS GO GOJIRA-GIANT

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The Veronicas is out now via Sony.

NOEL'S BIRDS GET A RETRO-EYE VIEW

O ne certainly couldn't accuse Noel Gallagher of resting on his post- Oasis laurels. Endless creative horsepower is in the man's genes, as demonstrated by the project he threw himself into immediately after Oasis called curtains in 2009. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have since released three celebrated EPs and three UK #1 albums (the self-titled debut in 2011, 2015's follow-up Chasing Yesterday , and most recently, the glam-psychedelia outing of 2017's Who Built The Moon? ), and this new retrospective marshals the top tracks from each, including two brand new ditties. It's been a decade of aural evolution in songcraft, but Gallagher seems (atypically?) humble about the fact: "Ten years of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds? Blimey! Just think of all the things I could have done in that time!” Check out the deluxe viny edition pictured below, which features a 32-page coffee table book, an etched 7" three CDs and four vinyl.

Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021) by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds is out June 11 via Sour Mash Records.

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