Oasis: Dig Out Your Soul

The once alcohol infused, disturbingly arrogant, fist fighting and F-bomb dropping Brit boys called Oasis, have put out their seventh album. Dig Out Your Soul has exactly the sound of a seventh album. It’ll never live up to the previous six. Bag It Up starts the party off right with typical electric guitar keeping a mediocre rhythm and the melody is somewhat catchy but the disheveled outro is messily irksome. Keyboards are peppered throughout the album perhaps in hope of adding substance. Im Outta Time strangely resembles a dreamy Lennon ditty asking ‘If I were to fall would you be there to applaud/ Or would you hide behind them all/Because I’m outta time’. Radio friendly Be Where There’s Life displays a catchy beat and Liam Gallagher’s proposal of taking you “Over the light/Under the signs/In through locked doors to secret floors”. By the end of the album the foursomes take a bluesy route. The Nature of Reality starts off with the sound of disappointment but an elementary drum beat and bluesy electric guitar are hurdled in to catch you before you decide to jump. Wrapping up the eleven track collection is Soldier On; a solid, drawn out tune with relaxed vocals. Only, you won’t have Oasis’s closing track replaying in your head, rather, Nirvana’s cover ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’. Oasis has attempted squeeze the last few drops of pure rock n’ roll bad ass out themselves but that may not be enough to ensure this album a memorable place in music’s heart or score any new fans.

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