Article 6AXF3 ‘We got bored waiting for Oasis to re-form’: AIsis, the band fronted by an AI Liam Gallagher

‘We got bored waiting for Oasis to re-form’: AIsis, the band fronted by an AI Liam Gallagher

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Rich Pelley
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A new album - full of Oasis-esque anthems - imagines what might have been if the band's classic lineup had continued making music. So, we ask its human co-creators, what's the story?

Before you do anything else with your day, you need to listen to this. A new lost" Oasis album has been released, from the period between their third album, 1997's Be Here Now, and their fourth, 2000's Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. Except, of course, it's fake. It was created by AI - or at least, it's an AI Liam Gallagher doing its best hellooooos" and sun-shiiiines" over a real band. But the eight songs, including Out of My Mind, Coming of Age and Forever, are practically indistinguishable from the real thing, with some seriously catchy melodies that give every post-What's the Story album - not to mention the whole of Liam and Noel's solo catalogues - a run for their money. So who made it? How do you get a computer to sing like Liam? And why would you want to?

We just got bored waiting for Oasis to re-form," says Bobby Geraghty, a 32-year-old singer, songwriter and producer. 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."

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