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Dig Out Your Soul

EMAILPRINTby Oasis

Oasis reviews
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8.5 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 27 critic reviews
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Album Info

Label: Warner Bros/Elektra/Atlantic

Release Date: 07 October 2008

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Rock, Alternative

Summary

The British rock band releases its seventh album, produced by Dave Sardy.

What The Critics Said

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90

All Music Guide

What's striking about Dig Out Your Soul is how its relentless onslaught of sound proves as enduring as the tunes.

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80

NOW Magazine

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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80

New Musical Express

More than anything else, there’s 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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80

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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80

Observer Music Monthly

It won't win them any new fans, but those that believed the truth last time will dig this.

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80

Hartford Courant

Noel Gallagher comes up with a half-dozen tracks as good as the classic-rock epic 'The Turning,' or 'The Shock of the Lightning,' which swaggers as confidently as Oasis did a dozen years ago.

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70

Trouser Press

Noel provides the best songs on Dig Out Your Soul, although his bandmates certainly can’t be accused of slacking in their efforts. The problem with this one is that it’s front-loaded with Noel’s songs, which makes the proceedings start to drag a bit.

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70

Spin

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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70

Billboard

Dig Out Your Soul, however, is the sound of a band rediscovering its snarl.

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70

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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67

Entertainment Weekly

Qualitywise, most of the tracks here are more ''Bungalow Bill'' than ''Eleanor Rigby.''

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67

The Onion (A.V. Club)

Dig Out Your Soul continues Oasis' relatively impressive late-period resurgence.

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63

Los Angeles Times

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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60

PopMatters

For those who have happily stuck around this long already Dig Out certainly won’t be the straw that breaks the camel’s 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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60

The New York Times

It sounds so good; really, it sounds better than it is.

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60

Blender

Overall, Dig Out Your Soul is a dark, heavy, chart-snubbing record that acts Oasis’s age (main songwriter Noel Gallagher is 42) and is their first in eons that doesn’t seem desperate to please. Oasis have their devil back.

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60

The Guardian

Oasis can still occasionally produce songs suggestive of the breezy insouciance that marked their early years--the new single 'The Shock of the Lightning' among them--but more often on Dig Out Your Soul, they sound as though they're killing themselves trying to come up with something that'll do.

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60

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.

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60

Dot Music

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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60

Drowned In Sound

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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60

Mojo

Dig Out Your Soul might not be the sound of envelopes being pushed, but its mix of kitchen-sink production and too many vague songs mark a deviation from business as usual that ultimately fails to deliver. [Nov 2008, p.105]

60

Q Magazine

A second Oasis album to better "Standing On the Shoulders Of Giants" and "Heathen Chemistry," but one too, that promises so much only to fall so short. [Nov 208, p.104]

50

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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50

Under The Radar

This album shows that they know what they're good at and that their latter-day acoustic balladry and epic wanking were getting tired. [Fall 2008, p.77]

49

Pitchfork

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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40

Sputnikmusic

Dig Out Your Soul isn’t the worst record Oasis have produced, but even the heavily shat-upon (an unfairly so, in this writer’s opinion) Heathen Chemistry was comfortable within its own skin.

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37

Paste Magazine

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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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 156 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Richard G gave it a2:
I'm a big Oasis fan and I have to say that this is the worst Oasis album I have ever heard and believe me I have given it a good listen. The one redeeming song in my view is I'm outta time which stacks up well with other great Oasis songs. The shock of the Lightening is also ok. But I guess I'm just into good songs. Most of the other tracks on the album seem like boring jams to me. None of the well worked out catchy tunes that make Oasis so good.

< CLASS="usercomment">dan c gave it a9:
This album proves that oasis are still very much an important force in music today. all this songs deliver whilst it's no definitely maybe or Morning glory (but then again no album is) it stands up as a great record with great songs by a great band. a pleasure.

Chris K gave it an8:
When I first heard this album I thought Oasis were finished...but after hearing it again it gets a lot better, with some of their best work on here...of course it can't compare to Definitely Maybe or Morning Glory, but it's still a great album by a great band!

Chris C. gave it an8:
While this may come off as not as great of an album as Don't Believe The Truth, this is a simply great rock record that has swagger and heart unlike most of the bands out today.

Dave N gave it an8:
Great first half, first 5 tracks are amazing. High Horse Lady is good, though a bit to repititive in my opinion. Falling Down is perhaps the best song on the album. The latter songs are of lesser quality. To be Where There's Life is still quite good, but Ain't Got Notin' is awful, as is The Nature of Reality. Soldier On is a decent ending, but lacks the brilliance of a song like Champagne Supernova. Overall a pretty good album, but could have been better.

Sammy S. gave it a10:
Great album from a great band.

Mr Man gave it a10:
Love this album. Didn't like Oasis before but I heard Shock Of The Lightning on the radio and loved it so I bought the album and I love every song. I've got down to buying the rest of the Oasis back catalogue and I've so far got to Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants and I've gotta say I haven't found a song I dislike yet! Beginning to think this is the best band of all time.

Tyler R. gave it a10:
Can't find any critiscisms of this album - every song is a belter, as long as you don't listen to it with Definitely Maybe in mind. It's easily better than 90% of the rest of the rubbish being churned out these days by other artists.

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