Altsounds - ONEIDA announces the Thank Your Parents Centerpiece: Triple Album, Rated O

Welcome to Rated O, the triple album and second installment of Oneida’s much-anticipated 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, has been bestowed upon us. Rated O will be released on Jagjaguwar on July 7th, 2009 (July 13th in the UK).

(art by Dan Schechter)

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

The Rated O Gatefold(art by Dan Schechter)

Rated O is a monster which happens to be the crowning achievement of Oneida's storied creative lives. By producing this colossus they have also created the necessity of its destruction—which within the confines of this tremendous accomplishment—they do so handily and with utter fluency. Perhaps Rated O represents the encyclopedic representation of ONEIDA MUSIC, ONEIDA CREATIVITY and ONEIDA INSATIABILITY. As the leviathan rises from the murky depths to endow the idle watch with illusion, disillusionment and mortal terror—thus Oneida leaves a hieroglyphic spume upon the glassy surface of what is KNOWN and UNKNOWN.

The music contained within the covers of Rated O must be seen as a gifted wilderness that when traversed will grant the traveler both a fractured mirror and a demolished and worried pathway deeper into the abyss. This album is an attempt to contain the entirety of Oneida and thus it points the way to infinite rebirth and boundless creativity. It is a finite map and the suggestion of unknown worlds.We finally have in our hands the album that Oneida has
often gestured towards. Ladies and gentlemen, this is one of the greatest triple albums ever recorded.

Tour in the distance:

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)