With the brothers grim currently 'slaying' the US, the Oasis phenomenon has thankfully limped abroad to bore other innocent music lovers.
The media frenzy over new album 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants' strangely died at the time of release, as the band escaped the barrage of 'not bad' reviews and tepid sales for Japan. But occasionally Oasis allow their music to do the talking rather than relying on vacuous, blundering, lawnmower mouth-offs. So, a new single.
'Who Feels Love' is a rich psychedelic jaunt, replete with a fruity bass-line, involving tablas and a sturdy, loping groove. What the track is actually about is anyone's guess, including, as it would, the most rudimentary of rhymes, and while it lacks any visceral charge, the production lifts 'Who Feels Love' above the adequate, particularly in the spilling, backwards guitars and the phasing on Liam's typically majestic vocals.
Of the other tracks, 'One Way Road' is, like 'Go Let It Out' B-Side 'Cigarettes in Hell', a turgid, despondent Noel hangover and shows how little material the band had left-over from the album recordings. Meanwhile, the painful cover of 'Helter Skelter', is far closer to the dire U2 version than that mighty Beatles original. Who knows what he'll slaughter next.
