Some things just cannot be @ The Catbirdseat - Indie Music, Culture, and Commentary

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April 21st, 2003

Some things just cannot be

Some things just cannot be explained.

For instance, the fact that I can actually listen to, and what’s more, enjoy, the first 2 tracks from Oneida’s “Each One Teach One”.

Dusted Magazine, of the opening track “Sheets Of Easter” says:

It takes Neu?s ?Hallogallo? endurance contest and does it one better. No wide-open spaces and rolling development; just claustrophobia and slabbed overdrive. Can the band take it? Can you?

And Bitchfork says:

[It’s] one of the least enticing ways I can imagine opening a record, yet somehow, after absorbing the full impact of this 14-minute onslaught, I realized I’d enjoyed myself…It’s hard to recommend a relentlessly hypnotic slab of skull-crushing repetition, but “Sheets of Easter” is exactly the sort of ballsy move that makes so many love and respect Oneida.

I’m not decided yet as to whether or not I love and respect Oneida. All I can say for sure right now is that I think I’m finally coming to terms with my masochistic tendencies.

Hurt me, big daddy, hurt me.

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