Oasis

As Oasis have found, when your strengths lie in swagger, sneer and shameless hedonism, growing up is hard to do. While Don't Believe the Truth is proof positive that their musical influences have matured, the loose simian strut of the likes of "Turn Up the Sun" makes you wish they had stayed young and dumb forever.

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 Believe the Truth, their seventh album, isn't the comeback fans
have long been praying for, but it's the first Oasis album in years that doesn't sound like
pale self-imitation. The bigger presence of guitarist Gem Archer as well as an inc... More >