ONEIDA - Success LP

Highly recommended.

Experimental psych-punk institution returns with Success, the band's most guitar-centric, rocking album in decades. Opening tracking "Beat Me To The Punch" slams like a long-lost VU outtake.

Long straddling the gray area between the NYC punk/psych/rock community and the art/experimental world, the music of Oneida is celebrated for its mix of abstract, atmospheric sounds and pulsing, hammering anthems.

Success finds the band getting to the core of what makes minimal rock music so good - songs pared back to beat and melody with a limited number of guitar chords. If a song or two gets ripped in half later by a corrosive guitar solo, well, what did you expect? This is Oneida.