Oneida - SuccessExperimental psych punk institution Onedia returns with Success, the bands most guitar centric, rocking album in decades. 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

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“we added a tympani and clarinet but ended up taking it all off again” At times the Truman Show-trappings of ‘Trojan Horse’ or ‘Gum’s unsettling cowbell hint at the motoric

but they're tethered to a fat boogie bassline and Bainbridge's own rich percussive clatter

On Forth Wanderers these introspections include meditations on relationships

‰ÛÏthe two parts are also intended to represent inverted components of a singular entity

But it's not looking like he's is going to get much of a rest in 2018 either

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Suicide (1977)

it hard to beat this 1979 offering from young and crazy horse

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A constant creator - be it his Cut Worms alter-ego or his day job illustration work (designing brand logos and beer labels with madhouse technicolour pictures) - writing and making records has always been Max’s driving force