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Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 28 February 2000. It was the bands first album under their new record label Big Brother Recordings. In the year preceding the albums release, Alan McGee closed Creation Records, 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 with a significant change from britpop scene to a modern psychedelic record complete with drum loops, samples, electric sitar, mellotron, synthesizers and backward guitars, resulting in an album more experimental with electronica and heavy psychedelic rock influences. Songs such as Go Let It Out, the Indian-influenced Who Feels Love?, and the progressive Gas Panic! were a departure from the bands earlier style.
It is the 16th fastest selling album in UK chart history, selling over 310,000 copies in its first week. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants has been certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and has sold around 208,000 copies in the US.
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