Vinyl Record

Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth

Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth album cover

Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth on LP vinyl. A 2005 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP ยท 2005

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2005 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Don't Believe The Truth is the 2005 Oasis album that rebalanced the band after the uneven post-1990s years and made their democracy sound useful rather than forced. By this point Oasis were no longer the five-man gang of Definitely Maybe or the culture-swallowing phenomenon of Morning Glory. The line-up had changed, the scene had changed, and British guitar music had moved through garage rock revival, post-Britpop and a new wave of indie bands. Instead of trying to rebuild 1995 at full size, Don't Believe The Truth trims the songs down and lets different writers into the frame. Lyla gives the record its immediate lift; The Importance Of Being Idle is one of Noel Gallagher's sharpest later-period singles; Let There Be Love turns the Gallagher vocal contrast into a formal closing gesture; Mucky Fingers, Turn Up The Sun and Love Like A Bomb make room for scruffier, shorter ideas. The result is not a return to the first two albums, and it is stronger for that. It sounds like Oasis accepting they are a band in 2005, not a monument from 1996.

Don't Believe The Truth matters because it gave Oasis their most convincing mid-2000s reset. The album tightened the writing, broadened authorship within the group and proved the band could still land major singles without leaning entirely on the old imperial Britpop formula.

For collectors, this is the key later-period Oasis studio LP. It belongs after Heathen Chemistry as the moment the 2000s line-up finds a more purposeful identity, with Lyla, The Importance Of Being Idle and Let There Be Love anchoring the era.

Lean 2000s Oasis rock with shorter arrangements, British Invasion echoes, garagey edges, shared songwriting, Liam grit, Noel melancholy and a more compact singles-driven structure.

Recommended for: Oasis fans looking beyond the 1990s peak; Collectors who want the strongest later studio-album chapter; Listeners drawn to mid-2000s British guitar rock with classic-pop roots.

When was Don't Believe The Truth released? Don't Believe The Truth was released in May 2005 as Oasis' sixth studio album. Why is the album important in later Oasis history? It tightened the band's sound after the early-2000s period and gave the later line-up a clearer identity. Which songs define Don't Believe The Truth? Lyla, The Importance Of Being Idle, Let There Be Love, Turn Up The Sun and Mucky Fingers are central to the album's character.