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Oneida: Success

August 24, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Oneida return with the appropriately titled album, Success

New album: The veteran (25 years) New York indie rock band’s first album since 2018’s Romance is a refreshing bounce back of unpretentious joy, krautrocky rhythms, Ramones strums, and rasping guitar Sonic Youth-type squawls, with and LP that’s a throwback that also feels fresh

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