‘Dead to the World’ is taken from the rocker’s new album, ‘Council Skies’, out June 2
A beautiful Beatles song, melodious and with symphonic arrangements, has just been unveiled by the rocker Noël Gallagherwho composed it as part of the album Council skies, the fourth album from his solo project, High Flying Birds. The album doesn’t drop until June 2, but the song comes out now as a powerful warm-up for what’s to come. Noel is a hands-full melodist and doesn’t seem to want to change the course of his prose, as shown in death to the world, the track name. The expression, in England, means to experience the deepest sleep there is.
Curiosity is in the spark that gave birth to the song. Dead to the World was born when Noel was in Argentina and heard fans chanting the wrong lyrics to his songs from his bedroom window. A former Oasis guitarist, he told this story to BBC Radio 2: “Actually, curiously, when I go to Argentina, I usually stay in a specific hotel and the Argentinian fans are the best in the world. There are a lot of children, they stay outside the 24 hour hotel, always shifts, and on the night shift, they always bring their guitars in. I remember one night, the last one I was there, I couldn’t sleep and they stayed playing Oasis and High Flying Birds songs in the parking lot and they kept getting the lyrics wrong. I sat down with a drink and said ‘those aren’t the right words’ and then I started writing the new song for it.”
The song, he said, portrays something very personal. “I think when people hear it, they’ll understand why, but it’s about being tired of arguing. It’s about the saying ‘dead to the world’ (used in English for someone who is in a deep sleep). I had to explain to the girls band french what did it mean.It is when you are in the deepest sleep.
Dead to the World joins two other singles by council skies that have already been released: Cute guy AND Easy now. In a statement, the artist says that this album will be the “most diverse and talented” solo work she has done to date. “It’s like going back to the beginning. Daydreaming, rolling your eyes and wondering what life could be…that’s as true for me now as it was in the early 90s. When I was growing up in poverty and to unemployment, music got me out of it all. The Top Of The Pops TV show turned Thursday nights into a fantasy world and that’s what I think music should be. I want my music to be uplifting and transformative in some way way”.
Source: Terra
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