Don’t Believe the Truth by Oasis

Don't Believe the Truth, Oasis's sixth album, landed on Big Brother on 30 May 2005, and for once it isn't just Noel Gallagher's show. The songwriting got spread around the whole band, Liam included, and the instruments got passed around too: Andy Bell picked up guitar on some tracks while Gem Archer and Noel took turns on bass. Dave Sardy produced, Olympic Studios is in the credits, and behind the kit sat Zak Starkey, making this the first Oasis record with him drumming after Alan White's exit.

What comes out feels looser and more like a gang effort than the records Noel wrote on his own, with "Lyla" stomping and "The Importance of Being Idle" slouching in the best possible way. Critics warmed to it, plenty calling it their strongest album in a decade, Noel named it his favourite of the band's last four, and the tour that followed covered 26 countries and 113 shows and ended up on film as Lord Don't Slow Me Down.

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