{"product_id":"romance-1","title":"Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003eOneida 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 neighbourhood 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 \u003ci\u003eA List of the Burning Mountains,\u003c\/i\u003e the final emission from the Ocropolis, the band release their newest studio creation \u003ci\u003eRomance\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eRomance\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEconomy Travel\u003c\/i\u003e to the expansive 18-minute epic \u003ci\u003eShepherd’s Axe, Romance\u003c\/i\u003e is an album in constant flux. On \u003ci\u003eBad Habit\u003c\/i\u003e the band employs phasing between organ and guitar to great, disorienting effect, while the primitive riffs of \u003ci\u003eCockfight \u003c\/i\u003eoffer a contrasting vision of rock minimalism. Listen closely on \u003ci\u003eLay of the Land \u003c\/i\u003eand 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, \u003ci\u003eRomance\u003c\/i\u003e 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 and Soldier, and recently formed yet another duo called New Pope. Guitarist Shahin Moita 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - Double Black Vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Double Red Vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joyful Noise","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50497128071499,"sku":"1027874","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50497129349451,"sku":"1027871","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ae14f88c-0ae5-467b-97c3-a6c3b80adc03_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727726441","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/romance-1","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}