Oasis is pickings a new approach to spreading the word all around the world.
Warner Bros. Records has inked a deal with the Liam- and Noel Gallagher-controlled Big Brother Recordings and will share distribution duties with the band's longtime home, Sony BMG, on the British hitmakers' upcoming new album, Dig Out Your Soul.
Sony will continue to oversee all U.K. releases while Warner peddles the disc in North America.
"Everyone at Warner/Reprise could non be more excited at the outlook of supporting such majuscule artists, and working closely with Big Brother to continue to increase Oasis' profile in North America," Warner Bros. Records honcho operating ship's officer Diarmuid Quinn said Wednesday. "P.S.: The new medicine kicks ass."
Dig Out Your Soul, the seventh studio album from the five gents wHO make up Oasis, is duo out Oct. 7. The Noel Gallagher-penned number one single, "The Shock of the Lightning," is expected to let radio play starting in mid-August.
"I precious to pen music that had a groove, not songs that followed that traditional blueprint of verse line, chorus and middle octonary. I wanted a sound that was more mesmeric and driving, with songs that would draw you in, songs that you would maybe have to connect to�to feel," Gallagher said.
This is the starting time new set of tunes from the Manchester-based pout tops�hailed as the Beatles' heir apparent when they hit the scene in 1994�since the digital-only claim song they provided for the soundtrack of their 2007 concert documentary. The doc, highborn Lord Don't Slow Me Down, chronicled their Don't Believe the Truth earth tour in 2005 and 2006.
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