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ONEIDA - Happy New Year
| CokeMachineGlow | | Oneida’s The Wedding possesses the dubious accolade of having been the first album I reviewed for CMG. Not unlike a first-year college student beginning his big term paper with “since the beginning of time, man has written The Novel,” I began that review overreaching for ways in which the album spoke about indie music, music in general, art in the 21st Century, history as fuck and on and on, rather than concerning myself with how the album sounds in the background at a cottage party or in headphones on a subway while you watch an elderly couple wordlessly argue. Fresh-faced enthusiasm and naiveté aside, I almost did it again right here....full text |
| | Popmatters | | Eight full-length albums into its career, Oneida continues to shift toward the softer, more folk-influenced sound of The Wedding, while slipping in a couple of transcendently aggressive, head-banging kraut-rock stomps ("Up With People”, to a lesser extent “The Adversary") for long-time fans. Yet even the softest tunes are shot through with discordant accents, distorted drones and complex rhythms—while the most driving ones are topped with delicate, melodic vocals....full text |
| | DustedMagazine | | It is wholly fitting that Oneida starts their latest offering with “Distress,” a fucked up, faux-Gregorian Chant surrounding by electronic burbles and a slightly misplaced martial drum-beat. In recent times, their sound has gone through so many permutations that it’s almost, almost gotten hard to tell what to expect from them. They defined their formula in the dual bombasts of Each One Teach One and Secret Wars - the merging of post-krautrock grooves with a relentless sense of repetition and the willingness to eschew (or not) melodies in favor of bludgeoning you into submission....full text |
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