Noel Gallagher shares “spacey” Robert Smith remix of ‘Pretty Boy’

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teasing its release, Noel Gallagher has released The Cure‘s Robert Smith‘s remix of High Flying Birds‘ ‘Pretty Boy’.The remix – which you can listen to below – features on the deluxe limited-edition of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ upcoming album ‘Council Skies’, due for release on June 2 via Sour Mash.Smith said of his remix via a press release: “I was surprised and delighted when Noel asked me to remix this gorgeous song, and I had a lot of fun slowing it down and spacing it out – Cure drummer Jason Cooper gave me a great vibey drum track to play along with – and the rest just phased into place under the starry sky of my distant moon…”The deluxe edition of ‘Council Skies’ will be available in triple vinyl and 2CD formats featuring a BBC Radio 2 session version of ‘Live Forever’ and a Pet Shop Boys remix.All versions of album pre-orders via the official store will come with a printed handwritten lyric sheet of ‘Council Skies” title track.

Pre-order your copy here. Check out the complete tracklist for the deluxe edition of ‘Council Skies’ below.Disc 1:Disc 2:The original version of ‘Pretty Boy’ featured Johnny Marr and arrived last November.

In January, Gallagher shared that Smith’s remix “sounds exactly like The Cure”.“‘Pretty Boy’’ as it was unfolding became reminiscent of the golden age of The Cure.

And it was just one of those crazy ideas that one tends to have in the middle of the night, thinking, ‘I wonder if Robert Smith [would] get involved.