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oneida, "the wedding"
Oneida's gaze is fixed firmly on the 1970s, but rather then being allawash in overblown solos and misguided mythology, theirs is anall-encompassing view, surveying both the well known and the obscure."Lavender," with its insistent kick-drum and anthemic guitar heroics,is Oneida's call to arms with Kid Millions spouting off nonsense aboutlavender on winter days and braiding pubic hairs.
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Elsewhere, the slowrumbling of "Spirits," "The Heavenly Choir," and "The Beginning isNigh" engulf the listener gradually, ebbing and flowing on theiratmospheric guitar playing and throbbing percussion. While Oneida spenda good deal of time exploring the bong-water stained terrain ofpsychedelic hard rock on The Wedding,they devote just as much time to genteel folk on songs like "Know" and"Run Through My Hair," the latter of which features delicate fingerpicking interspersed with stabs of acid-drenched electric guitar.Elsewhere, songs like "Charlemagne" and "You're Drifting" sound likeearly slices of electronic pop. That Oneida are often lumped aspsych-rock fetishists is a shame, as The Wedding proves thatalthough they make good use of the sounds and ideas of this style, itis hardly a crutch. In fact, when they want to, Oneida are just ascapable of writing a concise pop song as a lengthy stoner anthem, suchas on "High Life," the best synth-pop song I've heard in a long time. Afew songs here sound like stylistic reaches, most notably "Leaves," butin truth it is hard to fault Oneida, as The Wedding is consistently excellent.
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Elsewhere, the slowrumbling of "Spirits," "The Heavenly Choir," and "The Beginning isNigh" engulf the listener gradually, ebbing and flowing on theiratmospheric guitar playing and throbbing percussion. While Oneida spenda good deal of time exploring the bong-water stained terrain ofpsychedelic hard rock on The Wedding,they devote just as much time to genteel folk on songs like "Know" and"Run Through My Hair," the latter of which features delicate fingerpicking interspersed with stabs of acid-drenched electric guitar.Elsewhere, songs like "Charlemagne" and "You're Drifting" sound likeearly slices of electronic pop. That Oneida are often lumped aspsych-rock fetishists is a shame, as The Wedding proves thatalthough they make good use of the sounds and ideas of this style, itis hardly a crutch. In fact, when they want to, Oneida are just ascapable of writing a concise pop song as a lengthy stoner anthem, suchas on "High Life," the best synth-pop song I've heard in a long time. Afew songs here sound like stylistic reaches, most notably "Leaves," butin truth it is hard to fault Oneida, as The Wedding is consistently excellent.
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