Standing on the Shoulders of Giants [ 25th Anniv/Silver vinyl]

Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 28 February 2000. It was the band’s first album under their new record label Big Brother Recordings. In the year preceding the album’s release, Alan McGee closed Creation Records, and Oasis had lost two founding members (Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs and Paul “Guigsy” McGuigan) and hired new producer Mark “Spike” Stent to replace Owen Morris.

The album marked a significant change from the Britpop scene to a modern psychedelic record complete with drum loops, samples, electric sitar, Mellotron, synthesisers and backward guitars, resulting in an album more experimental with electronica and heavy psychedelic rock influences. Songs such as “Go Let It Out”, the psychedelic-influenced “Who Feels Love?”, and the trip hop sounds on “Gas Panic!” departed from the band’s earlier style. This album also marked the first time that lead singer Liam Gallagher contributed on songwriting (“Little James”), and this process continued for their subsequent albums, instead of relying solely on Noel Gallagher’s songwriting as they had for the first three albums.