Brooklyn indie rock lifers Oneida have announced their 17th album, Expensive Air, which will be out July 19 via Joyful Noise. The album’s creation was a little different than usual, with Bobby Matador creating templates for songs from his home in Boston, and then sent them to the rest of the band in NYC to finish. “We were working out the songs in New York without Bobby. We would start outriding the riffs, and then Shahin and Jane would add wild, out-of-tune licks,” says drummer Kid Millions. “It seemed so perfect.”
“I found myself thinking about this record as a darker, looser, louder, counterpart to Success,” says Bobby. “Both records charge forward from the jump and mix the elliptical with the blunt, and longing with self-mockery. But Success is like laughing in a car gunning carelessly through an ice storm, and Expensive Air is how you laugh at yourself as the car spins into the ditch, or a tree. Same trip, but a little closer to the bone.”
You can get a taste of Expensive Air via anthemic first single “Here it Comes” — watch the video below.
Oneida have a little touring on their summer schedule, including a NYC record release show at TV Eye on July 19 with E and The Exorzist III, and Tubby’s Kingston on August 9 with Jeffrey Alexander and Vague Plot. All dates are listed below.
1. Reason to Hide
2. Spill
3. La Plage
4. Stranger
5. Here It Comes 02:39
6. Expensive Air
7. Salt
8. Gunboats
ONEIDA – 2024 TOUR DATES
Jun 14 No Fun (Troy NY) Troy, NY
Jul 19 Tv Eye Ridgewood, NY
Jul 20 Deep Cuts Medford, MA
Aug 9 Tubby’s Kingston Kingston, NY
Sep 29 Gonerfest – Memphis, TN