![]() ![]() At the very least, Dig Out Your Soul makes inroads to redressing both issues: the lilting sea shanty "Falling Down" is Noel's most graceful balladic turn since B-side "The Masterplan", while lead single "The Shock of the Lightning" is exactly the sort of tune Oasis needs more of to stave off impending geezerdom, a hard-driving strobe-lit rocker- complete with a rejuvenating vocal turn from Liam and a suitably Keith Moon-like drum solo from moonlighting Who drummer Zak Starkey. ![]() The precipitous quality decline in Oasis' output since Be Here Now- whose increasingly uninspired successors make it seem not so bad in retrospect- can be measured two ways: the ballads got more overbearing ("Little by Little", "Where Did It All Go Wrong?"), and the rockers more sluggish ("Go Let It Out", "The Hindu Times"). But we'll have to wait another album to see if the incident instills in Noel a newfound hunger and fire 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'. No one knows exactly what compelled 47-year-old Daniel Sullivan to bodycheck Noel into his stage monitors (busting the guitarist's ribs and forcing several show cancellations in the process) one can only hope he wasn't so much a psychopath looking to off a celebrity as a concerned fan hoping to shake some life into his favorite band and literally push them back to the underdog position that inspired their most enduring anthems. ![]()
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