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| 3.5 by Rolling Stone |
Watching Oasis' precipitous decline from Brit-pop superstardom has sort of been like watching the Yankees blow it last October: You knew they had it coming, but it was still kind of sad to see. Don't ... |
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| n/a by neumu.net |
It is, in fact, what almost every other Oasis album has been: Not nearly as bad as overhyped sufferers might fear, not nearly as good as its enthusiasts want it to be. |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
For a few glorious moments, our beloved Mancs have that swagger back. |
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| n/a by avclub.theonion.com |
Yes, the rumors are true: Oasis has--for the first time in a decade--made an album worth hearing. |
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| n/a by www.musicomh.com |
Better than the first two? Course not. Better than the last three? Definitely. |
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| n/a by www.eonline.com |
It lacks the raw energy and tunes that made people want to hum uncontrollably in the shower. Worse yet, the brazen confidence the Gallagher brothers displayed during the early years has faded. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
As musically competent and beautifully-produced as this record undeniably is, strip the vocals and you'd be hard-pushed to identify it as being an Oasis album or enjoy it accordingly. |
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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
Let's not get overexcited - it's no masterpiece - but this is the first Oasis album in a decade to suggest that they have a future rather than just a huge, asphyxiating past. |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
Oasis has given us another album chock-full of jangley Brit-pop numbers and stadium-rockers, and the result is a formulaic rock record. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
Don't Believe the Truth might be the best Oasis album in eight years, but that doesn't mean you won't be shaking your head in incredulity from time to time. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
There are a lot of reasons this album doesn't gel, not least that Liam Gallagher now sounds like a singing anti-smoking campaign, and the brash, snotty arrogance that once sold "Cigarettes and Alcohol" and "Champagne Supernova" is crushed out by his gruffness. |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
Don’t Believe The Truth is simply Oasis being Oasis with maximum efficiency. Which is to say that if you’re a committed acolyte of the church of Oasis, you’ll love it. |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
Don’t Believe the Truth... probably isn’t Oasis’ nadir (that distinction arguably being due to 2002’s atrocious Heathen Chemistry), but one could be fooled for thinking so. |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
A big stinking pile of rubbish. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
In the end, it's Oasis's attempts to capture former pinnacles, from trying to re-create the simple sunny-side-up pleasures of "Live Forever" to trying for another album-ending mountain like "Champagne Supernova," that keep their latter-day output so entirely forgettable. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
Yes, 'Don't Believe The Truth' is an improvement on the trilogy of folly that is 'Be Here Now', 'Heathen Chemistry' and 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants'. But so what? Can't polish a turd, you know. |
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| n/a by www.drawerb.com |
Mediocre melodies ride atop formulaic songwriting. |
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