Oneida (NYC) + Kinski (Seattle) @ Cafe Bourbon Street 8/14

Oneida (NYC) + Kinski (Seattle) @ Cafe Bourbon Street 8/14

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A song is a song until it isn’t, until it’s pushed to its limits and beyond to become harder, faster and moredissonant. The music on Oneida’s 17thfull-length album,Expensive Air, all startedas tightly structured,melodic rock songs—very much in line with the non-stop bangers ofSuccessfrom 2022—but along theway, they changed.Bobby Matador sketched the structures of these songs from his home base in Boston, then sent the demosto Oneida’sNew York contingent: Kid Millions, Hanoi Jane, Shahin Motia and Barry London. “We wereworking out the songs in New York without Bobby. We would start out riding the riffs, and then Shahinand Jane would add wild, out-of-tune licks,” said Kid Millions. “It seemed so perfect.”Oneida has long straddled gray-area boundaries between the NYC punk/psych/rock world and theart/experimental world, playing at gritty rock clubs and elevated cultural institutions, including theGuggenheim, MoMA PS1, ICA London, MassMOCA and the Knoxville Museum of Art. The band hasbeen known for extended live improvisational performances, collaborating onstage with Mike Watt,members of Flaming Lips, Portishead, Boredoms, Yo La Tengo, Dead C, Godspeed You! Black Emperor,and manyothers. Oneida’s members juggle a wide variety of other music projects. Drummer Kid Millionshas played with Spiritualized, Royal Trux and Boredoms and releases solo compositions under his ownname and as Man Forever. Shahin Motia founded noise-punk’s ExModels and currently plays in KnyfeHits. Kid and Fat Bobby perform and release music as People of the North, andBobby's outside projectsNew Pope and Nurse & Soldier each released new albums in 2023.Oneida’s previous album,Success, came after a four-year hiatus, unleashing the band’s pent up creativeenergy in a set of catchy, accessible, nearly poppy songs. Song structure remained important in the run uptowardsExpensive Air, but so was the instinctual, improvisatory interplay that has always been a part ofOneida’s process. The band had been playing live together for two years, sharpening its attack andpushing its songs to go harder, faster and wilder.Oneida recordedExpensive Airin three sessions scattered across 2023, convening at Colin Marston’sMenegroth The Thousand Caves studio in Woodhaven, Queens, whenever they had a few songs ready.Marston and the band mixed the album in February 2024 at Menegroth.

The new album expands on what Oneida achieved withSuccess, but also pushes past it, layingdownirresistible song structures then blowing them to psychedelic bits. “I found myself thinking about thisrecord as a darker, looser, louder, counterpart toSuccess,” Bobby explains. “Both records charge forwardfrom the jump and mix the elliptical with the blunt, and longing with self-mockery. ButSuccessis likelaughing in a car gunning carelessly through an ice storm, andExpensive Airis how you laugh at yourselfas the car spins into the ditch, or a tree. Same trip, but a little closer to the bone.”

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