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Oasis: Don't Believe The Truth

Nick Southall, Stylus, 31 May 2005

IT SEEMS TO BE that the ever-cyclical, ever-fickle music press is at that point in its orbit where Oasis are deemed cool again. People are talking about Don't Believe The Truth and lead UK single 'Lyla' in terms of them being both a return to creative form and a commercial comeback. But Oasis never went away — their fifth studio album, 2002's Heathen Chemisty, went straight in at number one and shifted millions of units, just like Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants and Be Here Now had done, despite a lukewarm reception from both press and public.

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