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\"Oneida,<\/a>Romance<\/i> (Joyful Noise Recordings) presents Brooklyn avant-rock juggernaut Oneida at its punchiest and most concise. The band\u2019s first studio album since 2012\u2019s sprawling A List of Burning Mountains<\/i> only tops seven minutes twice.<\/p>\n

As with most of Oneida\u2019s best work, the sensual qualities and weight of the groove are the primary elements. \u201cLay of the Land\u201d presents a landscape corroded by hard weather and viewed from an ominous height. A crime-movie motorik groove pushes onward while guitar distortion and sweet synth lines dance between foreground and back. The thudding, shuddering grind of \u201cCedars\u201d shifts the meter and patterns, reminding the listener of individual trees and the awe-inspiring whole of the forest.<\/p>\n

In four minutes, \u201cReputation\u201d radiates the exhaustion born from working or partying\u2014or both. Its slinky, menacing bassline bursts through the rotating keys and drums, holding back until the guitar line shows the full extent of the damage. \u201cCockfight\u201d leans into classic Bad Company territory, crumpling and complicating the picture but not engaging in parody. \u201cGood Cheer\u201d has a similar party-going-off-the-rails feel but with a faster edge that intimates the speed and thrust of jungle without quite aping that brand of techno.<\/p>\n

Romance<\/i> treats vocals with a refreshing irreverence. They\u2019re obscured, mutilated, heat-blistered, and frayed at the edges, but never feel tossed off. \u201cLay of the Land\u201d slides between a low-pitched lounge singer on cough syrup voice and a quivering falsetto, inviting the listener to assign different characters to both or wonder if one is something concrete and the other is in the singer\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

On the aforementioned\u201cCockfight,\u201d Oneida deploys the kind of wry humor for which they rarely get enough credit as the lyrics wink at rock star cliche in a cracked swagger. \u201cBaby Jane has come to your town, and I wanna spread all of my fucking love around,\u201d before a command of, \u201cTake it to the bridge!\u201d. They also hint at something more complicated troubling the character. \u201cCedars\u201d blurs voices with overlap until they rise together on the chorus, \u201cEvery cedar started as the seed,\u201d creating a simultaneous plaintive cry from the darkness and a growling statement of intent. \u201cGood Cheer\u201d raises that voice to a fever pitch, straining to stake out space in the soundscape: \u201cWhy would you lie when we both know you\u2019re trying? We both know you\u2019re dying\u2026 We want you to be of good cheer. Always the soul of good cheer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oneida understands the power of setting up a vocal and then subsuming it. The most exciting part of \u201cCedar\u201d is the brittle, sparking guitar that seeps through the cracks of the vocal and rises until the vocals and drums are drowning in it. \u201cGood Cheer\u201d grinds to a halt and restarts, all creaking joints and straining muscle.<\/p>\n

As obscure as it can be and as coded as it gets, Romance<\/i> never feels like an artist just \u201cmaking shapes.\u201d These songs are developed ideas about something, shone through Oneida\u2019s artfully cracked, idiosyncratic window on the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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