Album review: Liam Gallagher - As You Were

4/5

Does anyone want or need a Liam Gallagher solo album? After three increasingly reductant records with the post-Oasis Beady Eye, it has lately seemed that all the younger Gallagher has been good for is waging feuds — not least with elder sibling Noel.

But with Noel sensibly shrugging off the insults and proving there is life after Oasis with his High Flying Birds project, Liam has come worryingly close to laddish self parody. Even the biggest Oasis fans will have worried that his first solo LP would be more of the same — all mouth, with little in the way of tunes.