SINGLE REVIEW: OASIS - THE SHOCK OF THE LIGHTNING

Big Brother Recordings - 29th Sept 2008 - CD, 7" & Download

September 18, 2008, 04:32 PM

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The normally placid Noel Gallagher has spent a hefty part of the summer months openly bad-mouthing some of the biggest names in the music biz. There’s already been a bust up Stateside (sort of), whispers of a change of direction and premature talk of kid brother Liam leaving the country for good. Now there’s a growing call-to-arms taking over the nations airwaves and every magazine on the newsagents shelf seems to have at least one pair of eyebrows taking up a little too much of the front cover.

Anyone smell a new Oasis album?

The Shock of the Lightning is the first track to be taken from the much hyped seventh studio album Dig Out Your Soul and if you haven’t heard it before it’s 29th September release date, you almost certainly don’t have ears.

It’s rolling drums, growling bass lines, instantly memorable melody and Definitely Maybe style hook combine to form exactly the same huge sound that Oasis have used to introduce the public to their new material since the awesome D’you Know What I Mean led us into Be Here Now. And just like Lyla, The Hindu Times, and Go Let it Out before it, once you let this song climb in and march around your brain, in it’s jack boots and Sgt Pepper jacket, it’ll feel like a song you’ve screamed at the top of your lungs every Friday night for the last twelve years.

In short, it’s a pure bred rock monster that growls, triumphantly the way only Liam Gallagher knows how. What it isn’t however, is the new groove-led throw-the-kitchen-sink at it sound that Noel has spent the last few weeks enthusing to the press about. Oasis officiando’s are gonna love it. The doubters, on the other hand will have to wait a little longer before eating their words.

Reviewed by WINSTON'S ZEN

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