In their 17th year, you’d have thought Oasis would have imploded by now.

However, their new single The Shock Of The Lightning shows that they’re not showing any signs of slowing down or stagnating.

As it stands, The Shock Of The Lightning is a surprisingly hard rocking tune. It’s got a big sound, but probably the least obvious chorus I’ve heard from Oasis in a long time.

As Lee says, it would be easy but lazy to hark back to early Oasis and make the usual comparisons. Winston does make the comparison to Morning Glory, but only to point out that the sound of the single is unmistakably Oasis:

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.

In other news, Shock is apparently not the strongest track from the new album (Dig Out Your Soul), so there are plenty of gems left to discover. But, after years of indifference toward the Gallagher brothers, I’m finally starting to look at them as a treasure of the UK music scene.

So good to hear Liam’s drawling vocals and that trademark wall of sound that have become part of the fabric of pop music over the course of their careers.