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Review Score: (2/10)
Just [garbage]. They fail. This was Oasis' last chance - I won't ever bother listening to their lousy records again. This is so ineffably lame, so uninspired...why did they bother?

Apart from some impressive production, there's next to nothing worth listening to here. There's some half-hearted attempts to clone "Wonderwall" which leave them sounding more like Chicago than the Beatles, and then of course there's Liam's songwriting debut, a touching (read: ...) ode to his "Little James" which blatantly steals from "Beautiful Boy" - ... (...).

The rest is merely prog-rock dressed up as lamb - Supertramp for the year 2000. Keep up the hype, lads, because there's plainly precious little left in the art department.

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