ONEIDA / PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND

split

Oneida, one hopes, needs less introduction than other bands. Nearly eight years of idiocy that has earned them the grudgingly accepted title of “that old
Brooklyn band that all the other bands like”; at least seven albums and countless ancillary releases full of manic delight and spastic paranoia; an army of
crazed preadolescent children poised at the ready to do their unearthly bidding; Oneida is living the dream, and that dream has finally taken shape as
Brah Records.

Brah will be all things to all men, as long as those men—yes, and women—are searching only for the overlooked and the underthought. The Oneida
hivemind will brook no fashionable diversions, no studied insolence—only pure music with no hope of escape will see the light of day on Brah’s watch.
So welcome to step one in the program: a vinyl-only split record that will leave the speakers weeping.

Oneida’s contribution, “Prehistoric Maze” was recorded at Rare Book Room in 2004, during the original and now legendary “Thank Your Parents” ses-
sions. A small hardwood fire was kindled in the studio brazier on Friday as recording commenced, and with periodic attention it had become a heaping
mound of coals and ash by late Saturday night. Sometime in the smallest, stillest part of that night, it was deemed appropriate to sing a hymn to the
coals, saluting the passage of the flames into memory. Just before dawn on Sunday, “Prehistoric Maze” was tracked in a flurry of ukuleles, hexoleles, and
homemade drums. Studio tyrant Nicolas Vernhes joined the band in their unsettling ceremony, contributing an outstanding familiarity with pre-
Christian celtic and druidic rites, and by the time a rainy, cold dawn arrived, the song was completed.

Oneida felt that the sound of “Prehistoric Maze” and the singularity of its genesis were reason enough to release it standing apart from the rest of their
work; the Plastic Crimewave Sound's “End of Cloud” was deemed a perfect counterpart, and so Oneida is proud to inaugurate Brah Records with this
haunting piece of blasphemy.

Their first major release in over a year, Plastic Crimewave Sound’s 18+ minute uber-krautpunk dirge “End of Cloud” is a fuzz-soaked dusseldorf drone-
rock opus, and the epitaph of departed guitarist Cat Chow, who lends space-vixen vocals to the fray. Studio fuckery, motorik drumming, blasts of elec-
tronics, rolling bass waves, and wig-flipping fried guitar duels, “End of Cloud” is guaranteed to cause devotional nirvana, or at least the rolling of multi-
ple blunts.

Chicago’s premier acid-punk primitivists Plastic Crimewave Sound have been lauded by MOJO, Wire, Julian Cope, Arthur, etc., have toured with Acid
Mothers Temple, Comets on Fire, Oneida, the Ponys, Gris Gris and others, and often garner comparisons to Chrome, Can, Ya Ho Wha 13, Sonic
Youth, Hawkwind, High Rise and even the Cramps—and all that is just fine by them!

Prehistoric Maze

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End of Cloud

1. Oneida are touring the U.S. late this summer with Kinski and the
Constantines.

2. This is the first release on Brah Records, a new imprint on Jagjaguwar
that is fully curated by Oneida.

3. Chicago’s Plastic Crimewave Sound are torchbearers of indie-psych
scene. They have played with many of its shining stars , and they also
curate the genre-defining (and defying) Galactic Zoo Dossier.

4. For the deep psych intelligentsia out there, Oneida’s most recent record
The Wedding will freak them out (and yet eerily make them feel at
home). Yet another ground-breaking record from the Brooklyn band
who knows no creative bounds. This split 12-inch release will be building
on the substantial critical acclaim that The Wedding has already garnered.

5. Oneida have collaborated with fellow New Yorkers the Liars on the
split EP called Atheists, Reconsider, which substantially heightened their
profile. Their most recent full-length record The Wedding features perfor-
mances by members of Trans Am and Home.

Oneida / Plastic Crimewave Sound

on JAGJAGUWAR/BRAH , catalog no: JAGBR001

Release date: September 6th, 2005

Format: LP (VINYL NON-RETURNABLE)

LP UPC: 656605420110

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