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Hasn't measured up to his enthusiasm. I really love What's The Story Morning Glory. A friend insisted the new Oasis was a must have. Just don't feel the songs are as strong. Probably keep it though.
"Dig Out Your Soul" features Oasis with a slightly trippy twist on their music. Despite some great tracks, the album lacks a sense of direction and focus.The highlights of this album are "Shock Of The Lighting" and "I'm Outta Time"; they are both awesome songs, with the first being an awesome, nearly psychadelic rock song, and the second being a well-written, sentimental song. The first song is also very interesting and has some experimental chord sequencing.The rest of the album seems lackluster and unexciting. A lot of it seems to be repeated chord sequences fading into oblivion and blur.
Oasis at the height of its creative powers are very much gone, no matter how much we try not to believe it. To explain frequent sightings of Elvis after his death, people said that the magnitude of the impact he had was so powerful at the time he was alive that people couldn't quite accept the shock of his sudden death, so they wanted to believe he was still alive.
Well, disbarring subjective notions of good or bad, as much as humanly possible - this isn't it. Trust me on this folks, Dig Out Your Soul is not Oasis' best anything.
There's a tendency among Oasis fans to label every album since, or after, the fall out of Be Here Now as a sort of return to relevance, a return to greatness. That all of the tracks on Dig Out Your Soul are not even the quality of what Oasis' b-sides once were is further evidence of this.
Sure, there are some modestly notable tracks, this is Oasis after all; their b-sides once were the stuff that most modern rock groups would've thrown each other to the floor to get to. But, apparently those days are gone.
Thus the sightings. Notable Tracks (in the order they appear on the album): The Turning, The Shock of the Lightning, I'm Outta Time, and Falling DownC +
I really like Oasis, but I felt like they had lost their way. After Be Here Now I began to believe that Oasis was comfortable with a CD that had one or two really good songs and a bunch of mediocre material to fill in the gaps. Dig Out Your Soul completely proved me wrong. I very highly recommend this CD for anyone who enjoys the best music Oasis has made.
Dig Out Your Soul being their 7th studio album and their 2008 was met with mixed reviews and that is also my feeling towards this album. The booklet is a mess and looks like a failed high-school project. Listening to it my feeling is that it is an alright album but not nothing more. They released three singles on this album, i.e., "The Shock of the Lightning", "I'm Outta Time", and "Falling Down". No lyrics are included but we do get a list of whom plays what on the album. 3/5.
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