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| 2.5 by Rolling Stone |
From the beginning, Oasis' greatest strength and most glaring weakness has been shamelessness — the belief that no classic-rock riff is too timeworn, no Beatles allusion too banal to merit b... |
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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
It won't win them any new fans, but those that believed the truth last time will dig this. |
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| n/a by NME |
More than anything else, theres a feeling that Dig Out Your Soul might actually be their best album in over a decade. In other words, not quite the fabled, oft-promised Best one since fookin Definitely Maybe! but certainly the best one since fookin ...Morning Glory. |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
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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| n/a by www.spin.com |
Noel Gallagher wrote two more tunes here, both excellent. Unfortunately, age has softened his heart, and he cedes the album's other half to his bandmates (including lead-singing brother Liam), who offer subpar material. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
Dig Out Your Soul, however, is the sound of a band rediscovering its snarl. |
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| n/a by www.musicomh.com |
To that end, and overabundant allusions to The Beatles aside, Dig Out Your Soul is a feat in its own right. |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
Qualitywise, most of the tracks here are more ''Bungalow Bill'' than ''Eleanor Rigby.'' |
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| n/a by www.uncut.co.uk |
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. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
If there are moments when the feted snap and snarl of yore amounts to little more than ramming generic blues licks down the audience's throat, they're tempered with moments of discovery like the lysergic 'To Be Where There's Life' and 'Falling Down' which displays an uncharacteristic lightness of touch. |
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| n/a by www.pastemagazine.com |
An overall sound thats 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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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
Dig Out Your Soul continues Oasis' relatively impressive late-period resurgence. |
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| n/a by www.calendarlive.com |
There's a forward motion to the backward glances, but the spiritual-philosophical bent of many of the songs suggests that brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher preferred the era when rock stars set out to explore the meaning of life rather than maximize the monetization of their brand. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
For those who have happily stuck around this long already Dig Out certainly wont be the straw that breaks the camels back--by all means, it lightens the load quite considerably. But it does so with the dawning realisation that, 17 years and seven albums in, this is a high point in a career deficient in high points. |
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| n/a by www.blender.com |
Overall, Dig Out Your Soul is a dark, heavy, chart-snubbing record that acts Oasiss age (main songwriter Noel Gallagher is 42) and is their first in eons that doesnt seem desperate to please. Oasis have their devil back. |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
With this balanced collection of solid rockers, more airy, toned-down tracks and far less self-indulgent noodling, Oasis prove they can learn from their mistakes. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
for now we're stuck with Dig Out Your Soul, which like every Oasis album from 1997's Be Here Now onward, makes cursory gestures toward making the band's mod-rock more modernist, before reverting back to the same ol', same ol'. |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
On a cursory listen to Dig Out Your Soul, it's hard not to think 'yeah, it's Oasis' and then unwittingly switch off - not through boredom or distraction, but because it's all so comfortable and, well, familiar. |
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| n/a by www.sputnikmusic.com |
Dig Out Your Soul isnt the worst record Oasis have produced, but even the heavily shat-upon (an unfairly so, in this writers opinion) Heathen Chemistry was comfortable within its own skin. |
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