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ONEIDA "Happy New Year" Reviews
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Release: 11 Jul 2006
Label: Jagjaguwar
Genre: Rock
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| CokeMachineGlow |
Rating: 8.5 |
Happy New Year is fresh and adventurous and, most important, it is consistently so.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 8.0 |
Another year, another fantastic album.
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| DustedMagazine |
Rating: 8.0 |
It's the most mature Oneida record to date.
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| Playlouder |
Rating: 8.0 |
This is a lean, taut 44 minutes of bright flight with barely a moment wasted.
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| Harmonium |
Rating: 8.0 |
Happy New Year is yet another in a string of excellent albums by one of the most innovative, criminally underappreciated American bands out there.
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| Drowned in sound |
Rating: 8.0 |
Brooklyn’s Oneida have again conjured a record of greatly diverse styles, the sole constant being the tried-and-tested echoes of Krautrock-style repetition that underpin each and every hop ‘n’ skip from compositional approach A to sketched blueprint B.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 7.5 |
Happy New Year shines obviously as Oneida’s most complete and daring album, a studied, unhinged plunge into 60s psych-rock, racing through the same serpentine melodies and sunny paranoia that dates the sound of many psych pioneers: Love, Jefferson Airplane, Syd Barrett, etc.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 7.2 |
While not exactly a disappointment, Happy New Year is a whole lot of "kinda," a record built around hesitancy that clutches the payoff tight in its arms.
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