Oasis already working on new album

Oasis have "already written" material for the follow-up to their new Dig Out Your Soul LP.

Despite only releasing their seventh studio album earlier this month, Noel Gallagher confirmed two tracks are nearly completed for their next disc.

Gallagher said the songs 'I Want To Live In A Dream In My Record Machine' and 'Come On It's Alright' would feature a choir and only missed the cut for their new CD because frontman Liam Gallagher "ran out of time".

The guitarist also told Billboard that the tunes sound like "mid-era Kinks" and are "vastly different" from Dig Out Your Soul.

"There's stuff about soldiers and religious people and rock stars and travelers," he said. "They seem to be all songs about people, but not people I know.

"And they all seem to have a narrative; it's kind of like a story which follows on from song to song."

However, Gallagher said it was unlikely any new tracks would surface until at least 2010 because of tour commitments.

"This tour's gonna take us to the end of next year and then it depends on what everybody wants to do," he said. "I think it'll happen when it's meant to happen. We just work on our own timetable."