And that is probably the biggest progression, from ‘Don’t Believe The Truth’”. Songs that you would maybe have to connect to - to feel. Songs that would draw you in a different way. I wanted a sound that was more monotonous, more hypnotic even more driving. I wanted to write music that had a groove not songs that followed that traditional pattern of verse, chorus and middle eight. "I made a conscious decision,” Noel says, "not to write what you could call Songs with a capital S. Or it don’t work.”‘Dig Out Your Soul’, maybe more than any previous Oasis albums, deviates from the orthodox approach to songwriting. "It goes like this: Verse, chorus verse, chorus clever bit verse, chorus. "Now remember,” their teacher tells them. There’s a 1961 British film comedy called, Raising The Wind, in which music students Kenneth Williams and Leslie Phillips are lectured on the key elements in composing popular tunes. The first time you record something is always the best.” And there’s a lot to be said for that, I think. Whereas ‘The Shock of The Lightning’ basically is the demo. Because generally I would write a song, then demo it, then listen to it for months. And before we knew it we were saying: ‘fucking hell: you know what, this is really good.’ I’d say it’s probably the most current song we have had on a record - ever. If ‘The Shock of the Lightning’ sounds instant and compelling to you, it’s because it was written dead fast. "Both ‘The Shock of the Lightning’ and ‘Bag It Up’”, Noels says, "Were written basically in the studio. The band sound as if they are really enjoying themselves and the exuberance is contagious. There’s a rough, defiant, exuberant edge to a lot of these songs, notably ‘The Shock Of The Lightning’, one of those songs which has the capacity to stop you in your tracks – on first, second, or fiftieth hearing – whatever you are doing. In the case of Oasis, who have settled into a cycle of three-year gaps between releases of new work, this sense is heightened by the fact that every new album tends to be greeted like a comeback.Any apprehensions about the quality of ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ disintegrate within fifteen seconds of the opening track ‘Bag It Up’, which has every quality of the band’s unique finger-in-the socket rock and roll. It just gets more and more of a challenge.”Įvery great piece of work – and 'Don’t Believe The Truth' was one of them – only serves to raise the bar higher, in terms of the expectations of the audience. But it has never been like that, at least not for us. You might think that, from the experience of all the records you have made, you would just swan into the studio and know how everything is going to go. "We’ve been putting records out for fifteen years or so. LP Gatefold Sleeve (2x LP Heavyweight Vinyl)Success, Noel Gallagher concedes, is not without its drawbacks.
This is the seventh studio album from Oasis which will be released on 6th October 2008.Other versions avilable include: Super Deluxe Boxset - 2 x CD, 1 DVD, 4 Heavyweight Vinyls, 24 Page Hardback Book all in a Beautiful Shoulder Box + A Digital Download Of The Album.