Best Friends 7''
Turnbuckle
1998
Rating: 6 diddling tremolos out of 10
The first seven inch from Oneida, and it sounds nothing like the heavy, synthy kraut rock you expect to hear from this band. The title track is somewhere close to psychedelic pop, for lack of a better descriptor. The other side, "The Land Of Bugs," sounds like a really mellow math rock song, the sort June Of '44 occasionally dabbled in. Neither song is bad, they're just not what you expect from this Oneida.
When I hear a release of this nature, I like to imagine somewhere out there exists some fans who were way into Oneida starting with this seven inch, but then just couldn't get into the way they sounded as their musical direction changed, even though I think their later years are far superior. God knows I've been on that side of the coin from time to time (My Morning Jacket peaked with "At Dawn" and that's a goddamn fact).
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