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  1. The Hindu TimesDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Heathen Chemistry

Release Date:
07/02/2002
Label:
Sony
UPC:
696998658622

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  1. "I get up when I'm down..","0

    , February 14, 2003
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  2. Hung in a Good Place

    , July 4, 2002
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The official party line goes a little like this: Sure, Be Here Now was bloated, but the boys were indulging in their phenomenal success at the time and, yeah, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants was a little uneven, but that essentially due to overcompensation on the corrective steering, plus the defection of two founding members, so 2002's Heathen Chemistry  the band's fifth album  is where Oasis returns to form and starts acting like a band again (hell, not only does Liam contribute three songs, but so does bassist Gem Archer, while Andy Bell throws in a minute-long instrumental). If only it were that simple. First of all, this, like Giants, is produced by Oasis and mixed by Mark Spike Stent, so it should come as no surprise that it sounds like that album, only without the slight electronica flourishes, since the band is determined to make this their rock roll comeback. But that Stent-mixed, Noel-helmed production keeps Heathen Chemistry from really rocking  it's big and diffuse, sounding enormous and vaguely psychedelic, without much grit or kick. When its matched with the right song  such as the swirling, majestically nonsensical opener The Hindu Times  it can be an addictive sound, but often it's mismatched with the songs; the sound expands the songs too much and they lose focus and dynamics, whether it's the muted Digsy's Dinner stomp of Force of Nature (a solo Noel tune unearthed from a 2000 soundtrack for a British-only Jude Law film), epic ballads (Little By Little), stabs at sweeping psychedelia (Born on a Different Cloud) or rockers (including the Stone Roses-meets-the Stones closer Better Man). These are songs that desperately need some kind of definition from their production, since they're Noel-by-numbers (even when they're tunes written by Liam): pleasant, moderately tuneful, but not too hooky, nor memorable (especially in this setting), and their deficiencies are brought into relief by the times that he really connects  the guitar-heavy drone of (Probably) All In the Mind, a pretty good power-ballad in Stop Crying Your Heart Out, the delightfully unassuming She Is Love (sounding as refreshing here as Rocking Chair and Talk Tonight used to sound as B-sides) and The Hindu Times, holding up the trend of the last three albums of having Oasis leading with their best song as the first single  plus Liam's Songbird, a wonderful, sweet country-rock tune that's easily the second best here. That's not a great average, especially since the flat production doesn't make any of these songs shine as a brilliant individual moments, the way It's Getting Better (Man) did on Be Here Now (well, apart from Songbird, which is the only spare production here), but it's not bad, either, and good Oasis songs are still a joy. Nevertheless, for those that rightfully believed that Oasis were a great band in the mid-90s  when Noel had so many great songs, they spilled over to three B-sides per single  it's hard not to find this album kind of disappointing, a confirmation that no matter what they do, Oasis Mach II will never have the sheer abandon or thrill as Definitely Maybe through Morning Glory.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide



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