Oasis’s Big Brother Recordings has signed a North American distribution deal with Warner Bros. The Brit-rock band’s upcoming studio set,  Dig Out Your Soul, will be released on October 7th. The first single is the Noel Gallagher-penned “The Shock of the Lightning.” 

Dig Out Your Soul is Oasis’s seventh studio album — the first new music from the band since the 2006 track “Lord Don’t Slow Me Down,” the single from the Baillie Walsh-directed road movie of the same title. Produced by Dave Sardy, who also was behind the board for the group’s 2005 album Don’t Believe the Truth, Dig Out Your Soul again features songwriting contributions by all four band members: vocalist Liam Gallagher, guitarists Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer, and bassist Andy Bell.  The album was recorded at Abbey Road and mixed in Los Angeles.

Formed by the Gallagher brothers in Manchester, England, Oasis has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide.  In addition to racking up eight No. 1 singles in the U.K. and a global total of no less than 171 platinum sales awards, the band has also scored big in the U.S. with three platinum albums — 1994’s debut Definitely Maybe, 1995’s classic (What’s the Story) Morning Glory, which has been certified quadruple-platinum, thanks to the smash singles “Wonderwall” and “Champagne Supernova,” and 1997’s Be Here Now.

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