Noel Gallagher drops suprise new single with Shaun Ryder's supergroup... and it's deranged
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Well this is a nice surprise to start the year. With 2025 set to be dominated musically by the Oasis reunion shows starting in June, this guest appearance by Noel Gallagher on this shabby-psychedelic new single by Mantra of the Cosmos is a surprise. Most musicians on a countdown to the comeback tour are busy keeping their powder (and livers) dry under the watchful eye of management, lawyers, corporate partners and record company wraiths.
Instead, Noel has joined this old pal supergroup featuring some of rock’s most legendary nutcases: Shaun Ryder and Bez from the Happy Mondays, and Zak Starkey and Andy Bell from pre-split Oasis (no word yet on if either will be in the new touring band).
Mantra of the Cosmos formed in, and excellently titled, single Gorilla Guerilla. This new one is even crazier. Domino Bones (Gets Dangerous) is six minutes of barely controlled mayhem – or at least the extended version we’ve heard is – with a false start of messy samples that kicks into a heavy acid-rock groove, diverts off into The Blues Brothers’ Peter Gunn Theme, as Ryder scuzz-raps “slow motion I just dropped some kind of potion now I’ve got a crazy notion, why my brain won’t function”, before ending on an extended guitar freak-out.
Noel contributes vocals to the chorus, which suddenly clarifies that this isn’t some wild drug-fuelled jam but a misty-eyed slice of nostalgia for those wild drug-fuelled days. “Remember when we were young, we see that life’s what you make it, you’ll never get it back so let it shine on…”.
