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Oneida return with the follow-up to critically acclaimed Success (2022). Oneida is known for extended live performances, collaborating onstage with Mike Watt, members of Flaming Lips, Portishead, Boredoms, Yo La Tengo, Dead C, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and many others. The band is famous for pioneering the NY/Brooklyn loft scene alongside bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lightning Bolt, Japanther, Black Dice, and many more. New album Expensive Air expands on what Oneida achieved with Success, but also pushes past it, laying down irresistible song structures then blowing them to psychedelic bits. I found myself thinking about this record as a darker, looser, louder, counterpart to Success, Bobby Matador explains. Both records charge forward from the jump and mix the elliptical with the blunt, and longing with self-mockery. But Success is like laughing in a car gunning carelessly through an ice storm, and Expensive Air is how you laugh at yourself as the car spins into the ditch, or a tree. Same trip, but a little closer to the bone.
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