A ‘new Oasis album’, generated by artificial intelligence? While no one’s saying that the Burnage-born band could be accused of being formulaic, could it be possible that an AI bot could make some new material while the feuding Gallagher brothers flatly refuse to?
Well, it’s happened - kind of - and it turns out that Liam Gallagher is actually pretty OK with it. The Lost Tapes Volume One, which has been put up on YouTube and is credited to ‘AISIS’, has gone down a storm with fans.
The project of 32-year-old producer Bobby Geraghty, the Oasis-esque songs were written by him (not by AI) for another band he’s in called Breezer. However, he added in vocals from an AI-created Liam Gallagher, and the results have since gone viral.
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Even Liam himself has had a listen, and when asked on Twitter his thoughts, he replied with an unexpected endorsement. “Hey Liam, have you listened to the AISIS album yet?” he was asked by a fan. He soon replied: “Not the album heard a tune it’s better than all the other snizzle out there.”
The album emerged in YouTube last week, and has amassed nearly 200,000 views in just a few days. There are eight tracks in all, all with distinctly Oasis style names too; Out Of My Mind, Time, Alright, Forever, Bittersweet, Coming Of Age, Alive and Tonight.
In the post’s intro, it says: “AISIS is an alternate reality concept album where the band’s 95-97 line-up continued to write music, or perhaps all got together years later to write a record akin to the first 3 albums, and only now has the master DAT tape from that session surfaced.”
Geraghty has said that there’s another raft of songs recorded too, hinting that they might follow soon. Speaking to The Guardian, he added: “We just got bored waiting for Oasis to re-form. All we have now is Liam and his brother trying to outdo each other. But that isn’t Oasis. So we got an AI-modelled Liam to step in on some tunes that were originally written for a short-lived but much-loved band called Breezer.”
Fellow band-member Chris Woodgates added: “We’ve been together for over 10 years, wrote a few tunes back in 2013, but parked them and moved on. Over lockdown, we thought we should try to do something with them, so we released a couple of songs – Alive and Forever – that got a bit of traction, but it soon petered out. Then Bobby had the mad idea to stick in Liam as the singer.”
It’s not yet known whether Noel Gallagher, who is set to release new single Council Skies tomorrow (April 21) and will play a headline gig in Wythenshawe Park this summer, has an opinion on the output.
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