Oneida Announces First New Studio Album In 6 Years & Shares New Song

New York psychedelic legends Oneida will return with Romance, their first non-collaborative studio full-length since 2012, on March 9th. The album is their first for JOYFUL NOISE Recordings. It comes after a period of extended experimentation and introspection following the 2011 demolition of its home base The Ocropolis, a casualty of the gentrifying forces constantly changing Brooklyn's waterfront. Romance's massive scope and wildly eclectic execution is pure Oneida, restlessly absorbing new sounds and styles into their ever-morphing amalgamatory psychedelic rock framework.

This morning NPR Music shared "All In Due Time," a track that demonstrates the band's ability to craft music that is at once hypnotic and unpredictable. Hear it below.

STREAM: Oneida - "All In Due Time"

Oneida's Bobby Matador told NPR, "In Oneida, there are both regular metrical pulses/units, and more organically-derived rhythms that seem at first to be completely free, or working in opposition/dissonant periods to the regular stuff -- but they eventually reach a rhythmic harmony "in due time" -- and it's not necessarily scripted or composed, but we understand how to use this technique and let it unfold in the moment."

Oneida will be touring this spring, bringing their music to the people. It will start with a record release show in Brooklyn on March 3rd before spiraling out into the Midwest and up the East Coast.

Oneida Tour Dates

March 3 - Brooklyn, NY - Secret Project Robot

March 16 - Indianapolis, IN - The Hifi

March 17 - Chicago, IL - The Empty Bottle

March 18 - Kansas City, MO - Union Library

March 19 - Hot Springs, AR - Low Key Arts

March 21 - Raleigh, NC - King's

March 22 - Atlanta, GA - 529

March 23 - Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light

March 24 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar

April 21 - Providence, RI - AS220

Pre-order Romance: joyfulnoi.se/Romance

Oneida images and bio are available HERE

Oneida has been a cornerstone of the Brooklyn UNDERGROUND for nearly two decades. Always evolving, the group has been a beacon of musical exploration and enthralling unpredictability, gaining legendary status among heads that know and expanding the limits of what it means to be a rock band. With a discography spanning over a dozen full-lengths, plus live releases, EPs, singles, and limited one-offs, Oneida has demonstrated a mastery of collective improvisation, off-kilter songwriting, complex composition, and everything in between.

In 2011 Oneida lost its home base, its studio dubbed the Ocropolis in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, due to the pervasive gentrification and over-development of the neighborhood that was once a thriving arts community. After watching the Monster Island building that housed the Ocropolis transform into a pile of rubble, the band began an intense period of exploration and discovery, retreating from the studio in favor of the stage, and birthing a panoply of limited, UNCOMPROMISING releases that documented the band's continuously unfolding journey. Six years after the release of A List of the Burning Mountains, the final emission from the Ocropolis, the band will release their newest studio creation Romance, their first album for JOYFUL NOISE Recordings and a record marked by wild eclecticism, even for a group known for its shape-shifting nature.

Recorded over several years in various locales, the 11 songs on Romance are built around deeply developed long-arc rhythm/phase concepts, noise, yearning, blind guitar rage, longing, the lurch of dying electronics, and a multi-modal embrace of human fallibility and artifice. From the crackling synth-led opener "Economy Travel" to the expansive 18-minute epic "Shepherd's Axe," Romance is an album in constant flux. On "Bad Habit" the band employs phasing between organ and guitar to great, disorienting effect, while the primitive riffs of "Cockfight" offer a contrasting vision of rock minimalism. Listen closely on "Lay of the Land" and you will hear constant rhythmic development, with drummer Kid Millions eschewing repetition in favor of morphing patterns of hi-hat and snare. As with all mystery, Romance reveals more through closer attention and multiple listens.

Oneida, always formidable in the live environment, will be touring throughout the year. Kid Millions remains one of the most in-demand drummers in New York, exploring the outer reaches of percussion music with his own Man Forever project, as well as playing with Laurie Anderson, Royal Trux, and People of the North with Oneida compatriot Bobby Matador. Bobby also takes part in the psych-pop duo Nurse & Soldier, and recently formed yet another duo called New Pope. Guitarist Shahin Motia is a co-founder of UNDERGROUND stalwarts Ex Models and Knyfe Hyts. Through it all Oneida remains a powerful collective voice, a propulsive force for wildness and excitement, with Romance heralding the return of the epic, artful ballad version of the journey.

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