Dig Out Your Soul
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Dig Out Your Soul
Dig Out Your Soul is the seventh and final studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 6 October 2008 by Big Brother Records. It was recorded between August and December 2007 at Abbey Road Studios, and January and March 2008 at The Village Recorder. The album had three singles. The first single, "The Shock of the Lightning", was released shortly before the release of the album, on 29 September 2008. In promotion of the album, the band embarked on a world tour, debuting in Seattle at the WaMu Theater, and continuing for eighteen months. In 2009, the tour concluded (due to Noel Gallagher quitting the band) with major dates at some of the UK's biggest stadiums, notably the new Wembley Stadium, Sunderland's Stadium of Light and Edinburgh's Murrayfield. They also performed three hometown shows at Manchester's Heaton Park. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
So all we're left with at the end of Dig Out Your Soul is a promise from Liam to "solider on"-- not because the band sounds eager to take on the next generation of Britpop revivalists, but because at this point that's all Oasis really know how to do.
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COS
Dig Out Your Soul does what Oasis does best: a back-to-basic rock approach with wonderfully crafted pop lyrics.
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Uncut
It’s an uninspiring ending to a record that it’s best faces up to some pretty downbeat truths and thus seems to fit right into the current national mood. But is this really what we want from Oasis?
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The Guardian
You could say that if Definitely Maybe was their Stone Roses, Dig Out Your Soul is their Second Coming. It won't win them any new fans, but those that believed the truth last time will dig this.
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The Quietus
Dig Out Your Soul is a refreshing listen, both the sound of Oasis rediscovering some of the spirit that made them great, and attempting - finally - something different.
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Rolling Stone
Dig Out Your Soul is an almost comically generic Oasis release, from its preponderance of plodding midtempo rockers (“Bag It Up,” “Waiting for the Rapture”) to the vaguely Indian raga-flavored psychedelic anthems (“To Be Where There’s Life”).
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NME
Dig Out Your Soul sounds like a band not exactly reinvented, but certainly rejuvenated.
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Drowned in Sound
It seems only right to paraphrase The Beatles in saying that they've carried that weight a long time, and just maybe Dig Out Your Soul will lighten the load.
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Glide Magazine
Dig Out Your Soul offers some good songs like “Falling Down” and “The Turning” but those are just mediocre Oasis works. It sounds like Oasis covering Oasis – merely going through the motions. Maybe that’s a bit harsh, but while the songs sound like classic Oasis, they’re devoid of any real hooks or innovativeness that made them who they are today.
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Slant Magazine
Those follow-up albums were disappointments because, aside from a catchy song or two, they were tedious. Dig Out Your Soul defies this trend and is their most compelling offering in years.
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BBC UK
It's a return to form.
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Pop Matters
17 years and seven albums in, this is a high point in a career deficient in high points.
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MusicOMH
Dig Out Your Soul is a feat in its own right. Complete with some terrific songwriting and noteworthy performances, the album holds up well, and shows flashes of brilliance from a band both blessed and cursed with having helped trail-blaze an essential part of modern British rock.
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The Globe and Mail
Overextended endings, overlayered guitars, these are reminiscent of the band's 1997 album in which access overran substance. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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Sputnik Music
Dig Out Your Soul proves to be a lean, punchy success and proved that Oasis’ comeback record ‘Don’t Believe the Truth’ was not a mere fluke. The sound here is more experimental than the group had been since Standing on the Shoulder of Giants but this time Noel has the riffs to back it up, so the record doesn’t sound as formulaic as the previous few Oasis LP’s and triumphs as such.
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All Music
what's striking about Dig Out Your Soul is how its relentless onslaught of sound proves as enduring as the tunes. This is the sound of a mature yet restless rock band: all the brawn comes from the guitars, all the snarl comes from Liam Gallagher's vocals, who no longer sounds like a young punk but an aged, battered brawler who wears his scars proudly, which is a sentiment that can apply to the band itself.
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Blinded By Sound
With Dig Out Your Soul, Oasis has brought ambiance to rock. This is not a collection of great melodies and choruses, which in and of itself is a change of pace. The relative absence of hooks and choruses requires that something else emerge. That something else is Liam Gallagher.
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The Washington Post
In fact, after hearing the wholly uninspired “Dig Out Your Soul,” you may not even reach for Oasis‘ first two records again, fearing you might have misjudged them back in the day. (Don’t worry: They’re still great Brit-pop albums.)
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Telegraph
Dig Out Your Soul doesn't stand up to their mid-nineties work.
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Altrockchick
Dig Out Your Soul may not be the masterpiece that Don’t Believe the Truth turned out to be, but it still one of their better albums.
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Record Collector
With bonus songs, remixes and film footage, there’s not much else they could have given us. Musically, however, they could, and should, do better.
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Hot One Hundo
But, over the years, and as my appreciation for both the art of making music and psychedelia have grown, so has my fondness for how staggeringly great Dig Out Your Soul actually is.
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Contact Music
Although its merits outweigh the negatives - just, 'Dig Out Your Soul' feels more like a stopgap than a re-evaluated statement of greatness, and maybe now's the time, seven albums and fifteen years into their career, Oasis need to sit and down and think about whether recording another album is ever going to enhance a reputation that was already cemented a long, long time ago.
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Exclaim
Like much of their previous work, this an album thats best enjoyed played loud out of a big set of speakers. And, like much of their material since the Be Here Now days, they continue to show an increased tendency to take their oft-maligned Beatles obsession to new levels.
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oocities
All in all, this is a mid-level Oasis album, more towards the bottom half, actually, but it's still a good effort from a writing and performance standpoint.
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Alan's Album Archives
This is a courageous and at times fitting ending to a fifteen year journey of ups and downs - it's just a shame it isn't that little bit better, consistent and more inspired too, an album made up of too many thunder clouds and not that much shock of the lightning at all really.
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Pop Peeling
This final album didn’t break tradition; the problem was the songs were now as equally terrible as a whole.
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Webwombat
this is the most unpretentious and honest piece of work from Oasis in over a decade, it's just a shame they couldn't continue on. That said, you kind of get the feeling that this is only the beginning of what is destined an exciting new journey...
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Getintothis
Astonishing is a word these days, you rarely associate with Oasis, and for those who turned off their Gallagher brothers radar around Be Here Now, one they’ll never have thought possible again, and for that Dig deserves your attention.
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Classic Rock Review
It’s an uninspiring ending to a record that it’s best faces up to some pretty downbeat truths and thus seems to fit right into the current national mood. But is this really what we want from Oasis?
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EW
But qualitywise, most of the tracks here are more ”Bungalow Bill” than ”Eleanor Rigby.”
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Retro Album & Music Reviews
The production on 'Dig Out Your Soul' is uniformly excellent throughout. Oasis have never sounded better, in fact.
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Digital Spy
Anyone interested in the spirit of old-fashioned rock 'n' roll with enjoy Oasis's latest album.
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Stuff
On Dig Out Your Soul, the Beatles-loving British band's seventh studio album, they prove they've really found their edge. And maybe it's for good this time.
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The Sunday Times
Possibly as a result, they've created their best 20 minutes or so of music since their first two albums.
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Glorious Noise
Their days as pop culture vanguards are over, but the music, all that probably should matter anyway, goes on and for now the band seems to have found its groove.
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Antiquiet
I find the album title an ironic suggestion, as I wonder how much digging it would take Oasis to get back to 1997, where they seem to have left theirs.
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Fanpop
two words to describe it; Over and Hyped.
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Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Any of the 11 tracks will fit brilliantly next to the classics at concerts. Seven albums in, and Oasis have never been more inventive. Still the rock & roll band all others in Britain have to be judged by.
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Entertainment.ie
Don't believe folk who say that this is Oasis's best album - it's not anywhere close. Their best album in recent times, however? Perhaps; it's certainly their most consistent.
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Paste
an overall sound that’s been compressed and flatlined into one continuous buzz, this sounds like a tired band that had already gone through the motions before it even started.
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