Oneida
The Wedding
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Genre(s): Indie, Rock
Record label: Jagjaguwar
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Album Review: The Wedding by Oneida
Fantastic, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 9/10
Oneida have become one of the more rewarding groups in experimental music in the mid-2000s, since they're so unfailingly curious about all their detours. Catatonic psych-rock, heavy blues dirge, post-punk, garage, the anxious blipping of a vintage keyboard -- it's all fair territory for them. 2005's Wedding is no different. Hanoi Jane, Kid Millions, and Bobby Matador drop some inventive pop with "You're Drifting" and "High Life," two songs with real melodies that still manage the unlikely instrumentation and the misdirection you've come to expect.
Opinion: Excellent
The word on the street is that Oneida built the largest music box on the Eastern US seaboard and used its emanations as the basis for the songs on The Wedding. Damned if I can hear it, though. Maybe it’s a hoax; after all, would you believe everything that men who call themselves Hanoi Jane, Kid Millions, and Bobby Matador have to say? I don’t know if the music box exists or not, but it wouldn’t be Oneida without a healthy does of what-the-fuckness.