Oneida Does, Like, the Triple-LP Thing

Kinda like the Grateful Dead's Europe '72 album, but different! Or maybe we're thinking Animal Collective...

By Blurt Staff

Coming to a trend near you: triple albums. Yes, it's back to the ‘70s in the indierock world, and leading the pack is Oneida. We don't just mean three-LP sets that can still be squeezed onto one and a half CDs: we mean three-CD sets. (That can mean, in some instances, as much as 240 minutes, if you do the math, but Oneida's trying to keep things relatively under control - seee the tracklisting, below.

Rated O is the second installment of Oneida's Thank Your Parents triptych of releases. In August of 2008, Oneida released the first installment, Preteen Weaponry, and now, Rated O, the centerpiece of the Thank Your Parents trilogy, is due fro Jagjaguwar on July 7^th.

Here's some additional skinny, straight from the band...

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Today we are not only proud to announce this triple album, but also to share a new podcast in which members of Oneida provide commentary, insight, and explanations into the inner-workings of the O.  This podcast, produced by Alex Goldman, contains three songs, "What's Up, Jackal?", "I Will Haunt You", and "Saturday".  We know Jagjaguwar hasn't updated ye olde podcaste in a while, but we are making up for it!!!  Discover why Rated O is like drinking a 50 gallon drum of molé sauce, how you can figure out when something is "rated O" (hint: you only realize something is "rated O" until "way later"), and under what circumstances Showtime (Shahin Motia of Ex-Models) joined the band.

Download The Rated O Podcast in Itunes

A Rated O sampler that contains those songs (minus commentary) is now available for free via Emusic and for purchase on Itunes.

Selections from Rated O on Emusic

Selections from Rated O on Itunes

Tracklisting:

DISC 1 (SIDES A & B):
Brownout In Lagos
What's Up, Jackal?
10:30 at the Oasis
Story of O
The Human Factor

DISC 2 (SIDES C & D):
The River
I Will Haunt You
The Life You Preferred
Ghost in the Room
Saturday
It Was a Wall
Luxury Travel

DISC 3 (SIDES E & F):

O

End of Time

Folk Wisdom

Oneida live:

07/10/09 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
07/11/09 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill   w/ Wood Shjips and Jonas Reinhardt
07/12/09 Los Angeles, CA - The Echoplex   w/ Amps For Christ and Clipd Beaks
07/24/09 Brooklyn, NY - Todd P Event - TBA   w/ Sunburned Hand Of Man
07/25/09 Medford, MA - Outside the Lines Studio   w/ Sunburned Hand Of Man + Big Bear
07/26/09 New Haven, CT - BAR   w/ Sunburned Hand Of Man

08/07/09 Kutna Hora (Czech Republic), Art Festival
08/08/09 Berlin (Germany), Berlin Festival
08/09/09 Scheer (Germany), Klangbad Festival
08/14/09 Amsterdam (Netherlands), Paradiso
08/15/09 Tilburg (Netherlands)