Kevin Bronson on January 14th, 2015

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The video for “Ballad of the Mighty I” — the tease from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ forthcoming album “Chasing Yesterday” — is good to the last drop, when the name of a frontman of another prominent U.K. band is dropped. Soaked in droll humor, the video-within-a-video follows the notoriously curmudgeonly Gallagher (we love what he said about Ed Sheeran) through scenes mapped out by an ostensibly ambitious director. Oh, the drama. Oh, the straight face. And oh, the song … and yes, those are strings. “Chasing Yesterday,” the first album to be produced and written by Gallagher, is advertised as featuring a newly broad palette of instrumentation. And “Ballad,” which clocks in at 5:15 on the album, sounds like it. Of managing the production of the album, the former Oasis guitarist says it “proved extremely difficult … I was making the whole thing up as I went along.” “Chasing Yesterday” is out March 3.