Oasis
Dig Out Your Soul
Campus Correspondent Review By Hunter Embry
Indiana University Southeast
The drunken heathens of Oasis return with its seventh and most entertaining studio album, appropriately titled Dig Out Your Soul (Reprise). The first single, “The Shock of the Lighting,” is classic Oasis- edgy, exciting and full of tension. Recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London, Dig Out Your Soul re-introduces Oasis's unmistakable sound walling recording techniques, in which the instruments are tracked especially loud, giving each track a natural distortion.
However, “The Shock of Lightning” is by no means the album’s best track, but merely a statement– a warning. The song evokes images of the guys’ beating-up reporters and quarrelling on stage in front of thousands of crying fans. The album continues with a ‘60s theme, as "Waiting for the Rapture" is a shameless ode to The Doors' 1968 hit, "Five to One." (Ironically, the Door's lead singer, Jim Morrison, was arrested in 69' for attempting to incite a riot and indecent exposure while performing "Five to One.") But Noel takes a different lyrical approach to Morrison and they're showcased over the top of a taunting rhythm section that provokes a seemingly love-crazy wild man.
There aren't such innocent songs on Dig Out Your Soul as smash singles like “Wonderwall” or “Champagne Supernova” since Oasis seems to shift tits musical direction away from the Beatles-influenced vocal melodies and more towards its bluesy rivals The Rolling Stones. "Soldier On," the album's closer, is a foot-dragging, military march song with echoing vocals, spacey organs and delta guitars that scoots into a trance with a shadowing harmonica that sounds rooted deep in the vast audible battlefield. "Soldier On" encapsulates not only Dig Out Your Soul but the band as well considering its tanked through rock n' roll for over a decade, beaten-down by each other and held up by their fans worldwide.
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