Chasing Yesterday (album)

Chasing Yesterday is the second studio album by English rock band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

[3] Gallagher officially announced Chasing Yesterday on 13 October 2014 at a question-and-answer event hosted by Facebook in London, revealing the album's title, release date, track listing, supporting UK tour, and first two singles.

[4] Chasing Yesterday was completed by July 2014, but due to touring commitments and the reissues of Oasis albums it was held for release for several months, with Gallagher proclaiming that the wait was "beginning to do [his] head in".

"[4] Gallagher said that Marr arrived to record his part for the track without having heard a demo, and that his contribution helped make the song "one of the best" he had ever written.

The fourth single to be released is "Lock All the Doors" and was available on 7" vinyl from 28 August 2015 and was backed with brand new song "Here's a Candle (for Your Birthday Cake)".

The first concert tour in promotion of Chasing Yesterday was detailed during the initial announcement of the album in October 2014, with six shows confirmed in the UK and Ireland between 3 and 10 March 2015,[4] all of which sold out in minutes.

[16] Gallagher told NME, "On the original running order 'The Mexican' wasn't on the album, but I felt it needed something there to lighten the mood a bit.

[18] David Fricke of Rolling Stone gave a positive review: "The greater appeal of Chasing Yesterday is in the way Gallagher, 47, now does reflection, loss and persistent optimism, leavening his usual power chords and pub-choir-ready choruses with a dusky, psychedelic churn that exposes the long, hidden thread running from early-Seventies Traffic to the Stone Roses."

The 47-year-old is in reflective lyrical mode, revealing his view from middle age, trying to find peace with the past, or (textbook mid-life crisis material) searching for a spectral, unattainable female."

Helen Brown, writing for The Telegraph, gave Chasing Yesterday a score of 3/5, concluding, "The USP of this record is its warmer, looser atmosphere.