Review: LIAM GALLAGHER & JOHN SQUIRE - "Liam Gallagher John Squire"

Sifting through and reading interviews and various articles on the collaborative album of the Mancunian super duo formed by Liam Gallagher and John Squire, a rather intriguing possible interpretation emerges, namely that this album is nothing other than the unfinished and never released third album by the Stones Roses .

Some of Squire’s statements regarding the ongoing difficulties of making a record with his entire former band would have generated these suggestive hypotheses, as suggestive as the one that Liam could have adapted to becoming a new Ian Brown. In fact the album sounds like something from the Stone Roses even if the Gallagher matrix is very evident and marked.

There is extensive literature on Liam’s passion for the Stone Roses. According to what Liam recently told the Times it was, in fact, a Stone Roses concert that brought Gallagher to music. He told the British newspaper that if he had ended up in the studio with Squire when he was 20, he “probably would have licked him to death.”

Apart from these conjectures and flights of fancy from the UK press, the reality lies in the ten tracks of this joint album of theirs.

Infectious rock ‘n’ roll with an undercurrent of 60s psychedelia, everything as expected and imaginable.

Over the course of 45 minutes Liam and John do what they do perfectly, one singing and the other playing the guitar, both free from preconceptions and expectations.
The album sounds super Brit, with reminiscences of the Beatles (Mother Nature’s Song), blues almost of Zeppelian origin (I’m a Wheel), but also similarities to Rolling Stone (One Day At A Timyself).
All declined between Stone Roses and Oasis.

The album is undoubtedly Gallagher’s best post-Oasis album, and Squire’s best work without Stone Roses.

An added value for each other that will drive those nostalgic for the nineties crazy (don’t miss the live show in Italy on April 6th), waiting for an Oasis or a Stone Roses original… if they ever arrive!!!

SCORE: Score 7.00

Raise Your Hands – Rating 7.00
Mars To Liverpool – Rating 7.15
One Day At A Time – Rating 7.00
I’m a Wheel – Rating 7.00
Just Another Rainbow – Rating 7.00
Love You Forever – Rating 7.00
Make It Up As You Go Along – Rating 7.15
You’re Not The Only One – Rating 7.00
I’m So Bored – Rating 7.15
Mother Nature’s Song – Rating 7.00