2015: some tracks to remember

In truth, 2015 was a year in which I didn’t listen to a lot of new music - and a lot of what I listened to were new tunes from my old favourites. That means this list is thus inclined, but there were some good tunes out in any case...

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - "In The Heat Of The Moment" (2014)

I’ve got to be honest - when I first heard the “na-na-na-na-nah” at the start of this song, I absolutely hated it. I had high hopes for Noel after a pretty solid solo debut, but this just sounded like he was going down a poppy route that I wasn’t ready to roll with.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (2011)

8/10

The Chief shows them how it’s done

Fans of Oasis, and specifically of Noel Gallagher, will have been eagerly anticipating this moment; when the brains behind Britain’s biggest band of the 1990s would move out of the shadow of his little brother to show the world how he could front a band. Doubts over whether Noel could fulfil a lead role persisted, but a strong solo debut will have silenced most of those voices.