High Flying Birds frontman Noel Gallagher has claimed that there is a lack of personality in contemporary music, saying that "there doesn't seem to be any characters any more".
The 47-year-old former Oasis star said: "There is a lot of **** pop music these days that's just devouring everything at the minute. I'm hoping that will come to an end."
He continued: "There doesn't seem to be any characters any more. When you have proper characters, the music sort of becomes secondary - it looks after itself.
"Look at bands like The Smiths and The Jam - all great characters.
"Is it any coincidence that all the indie labels got bought up by the major labels and things have started to get boring?"
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will release their second album, Chasing Yesterday, next month.
