Oasis Stands On Shoulders Of Two Giants

Oasis is taking a new approach to spreading the word all around the world.

Warner Bros. Records has inked a deal with the Liam- and Noel Gallagher-controlled Big Brother Recordings and will share distribution duties with the band's longtime home, Sony BMG, on the British hitmakers' upcoming new album, Dig Out Your Soul.

Sony will continue to oversee all U.K. releases while Warner peddles the disc in North America.

"Everyone at Warner/Reprise could not be more excited at the prospect of supporting such great artists, and working closely with Big Brother to continue to increase Oasis' profile in North America," Warner Bros. Records chief operating officer Diarmuid Quinn said Wednesday. "P.S.: The new music kicks ass."

Dig Out Your Soul, the seventh studio album from the five gents who make up Oasis, is duo out October 7. The Noel Gallagher-penned first single, "The Shock Of The Lightning," is expected to get radio play starting in mid-August.

"I wanted to write music that had a groove, not songs that followed that traditional pattern of verse, chorus and middle eight. I wanted a sound that was more hypnotic and driving, with songs that would draw you in, songs that you would maybe have to connect to—to feel," Gallagher said.

This is the first new set of tunes from the Manchester-based mop tops—hailed as the Beatles' heir apparent when they hit the scene in 1994—since the digital-only title song they provided for the soundtrack of their 2007 concert documentary. The doc, titled Lord Don't Slow Me Down, chronicled their Don't Believe the Truth world tour in 2005 and 2006.

Credits for the info to E! Online.

Comments

[joshua029]

working closely with Big Brother to continue to increase Oasis' profile in North America,"

i believe that anyone that lived in the 90s has heard of this band. i like 'em so i'll give this new material a listen...

[jammyninja]

Hmm...whereas Radiohead avoided using a label, Oasis will use two...

[Stinkfist528]

i like these guys. they may be *******s, but i thought the few singles they had out in the 90s were pretty good, so ill probably give this a shot...

[Dragon Master]

Their first 3 Cds are all muses to draw upon, for any Britpop band. The Arctic Monkeys, the Editors, Kasabian, and the Music all tried to copy this band. Their thunder as a band was stolen by Coldplay and Radiohead, who relied on experimentalism, new ways of making new music. Oasis fell into the stigma that these two bands avoided. Eventually, Oasis would come back into popularity. Now, this may be their chance.

[Stiney]

Dragon Master wrote:

Their thunder as a band was stolen by Coldplay and Radiohead, who relied on experimentalism, new ways of making new music.....

....and of course singing in the exact same restrained monotonous mind numbingly dull way, crap guitar work and a level of poncey, cringe inducing pretention that makes you want to vomit with contact embarasment anytime Thom or Chris give an interview. "we are the last band to treat music as an art form" No you are just ripping of every other bland un-imaginative "poor me, the cool kids wouldn't be my freinds at school" pre-emo band that went before you. That is not an art form.


Had to get that rant off my chest, but nah, RH and CP have created some great music, I just can't stand that middle of the road, whinging, self pitying, "music" that makes up the other 90% of thier songs. Radiohead that is, Coldplay don't tend to go down that route as much.

[squierstratdave]

i like just by radiohead, i like loads of coldplay songs and almost all of oasis' songs

[watisthechord?]

pre-emo band

by the way. Mokey wrench by foo fighters. Pop meliodys, punk guitar work, self-loathing lyrics,shouty end bits.....did this song create emo?