Beady Eye evolving - Kudos

Granted - who expected the great departure from all that Oasis and Liam Gallagher has announced, here is not happy. But Beady Eye away to "BE" also thanks to the work of indie producer Dave Sitek refreshing from simple, often witty and joinable in the singing, but musically rather unassuming songwriting and-production scheme that even the debut 'Different Gear, Still Speeding "coined - which was not bad, but predictable and inhibited by a handful of weak songs.

The bad first: Even "BE" can not do without the typical incident poor rockers who pull down the rest of the album somewhat. "Face the Crowd" is a catchy tune, but somehow bland and musically almost boring. "Shine A Light" simply lacks the melodic variety, which can not tear also Liam Gallagher (surprisingly juvenile sounding) voice.
But the rest of the album is often surprise and varied, melodic and concerning the sound a step above its predecessor. The opener "flick of the finger" stomps zoom with thick drums and a powerful instrument-panel and should be one of the most captivating and most energetic Beady Eye songs. Come quite different then "Soul Love", the darker and more atmospheric sounds and as well as "flick of the finger" so never an Oasis album would - class as Beady Eye has experimented here.

After said "Face the Crowd" comes the single "Second Bite of the Apple" - a somewhat unusual melody that works but animated and at the latest at the end to sing along. The new production by Dave Sitek is also noticeable here. "Soon Come Tomorrow" is probably the strongest tracks on the album - probably the best Chorus, the Beady Eye has written to date, to surprisingly good lyrics. Go then!
With "iz Rite" and "I'm Just Saying" followed by two more classic rock songs that would fit easily in the later Oasis albums - and there would surely have numbers. "Iz Rite" has a beautiful melody and is the logical development of the Oasis B-side "Thank You For The Good Times", "I'm Just Saying" simply rocks and waiting with a great guitar solo on. As Oasis fan you will be satisfied here definitely.

"Do not Brother Me" is probably the ghosts - on one side is a well-written song acoustic ballad, on the other, the direct reference to the unloved brother Noel is thickly and the 3-minute outro would have probably not used , Songwriting Liam has made here in any case his homework - for "Shine A Light" follows with "Ballroom Figured" then the next acoustic song on everything except Liam's voice and guitar is not bored despite totalem waiver. A final highlight is then "Start Anew", slowly built up in a dreamy outro which opens, similar to "The Morning Son", the last song on the debut.

All in all, a handful of songs here that would have easily been able to "Dig Out Your Soul" or "Do not Believe the Truth" (Iz Rite, I'm Just Saying), some of which would Oasis never released (Flick of the finger, Soul Love, Start Anew) and some in between. The whole album flows well from song to song, is more diversified than its predecessor and the music one step higher - up to two, three even tracks the whole is qualitatively close to the late work of Oasis, but are not particularly similar concerning the sound. So must it be - while the brother continues the musical work of Oasis, Beady Eye go their own, equally interesting way. If "BE" the beginning of this route, we can look forward to further experiments of Liam Gallagher, Andy Bell and Gem Archer.

Playing tips: Flick of the finger, Soon Come Tomorrow, Iz Rite

By the way, the deluxe edition offers for a few euros more shockingly good three extra songs that would definitely deserves to be on the album - for me the better purchase.