No band has been so praised for such a wide range of music over the last ten years than Brooklyn’s Oneida. Nobody has come close to matching
their output of dazzlingly creative, uncategorizable music. Psychedelia, minimalism, maximalism, one-step, infinitewave, blah blah blah blah…it’s
all there, all the time; and Happy New Year, the band’s ten billionth album, is Oneida’s zenith. Simultaneously the most eclectic and most coherent
album they have yet released, Happy New Year flows flawlessly from a traditional hymn of grim beauty (“Distress”) through hypnotic rounds,
thunderous kraut grooves, severe ballads, and other, indescribable music.

In some ways, Happy New Year is Oneida’s most collectively based record, featuring a wide range of guests. Phil Manley of Trans Am and the
Fucking Champs and experimental pianist Emily Manzo return for encores of their guest appearances on 2005’s The Wedding; they are joined by
Shahin Motia of Ex Models, Brad Truax of Home, and frequent Oneida collaborator Barry London. However, despite the impressive array of
friends and neighbors at the party, this is also Oneida’s most fully-realized personal statement—the document where they proclaim themselves the
finest band recording and playing today.

Recorded at the soon-to-be-defunct Sunset Grill with Barry London and the Rare Book Room with Nicolas Vernhes, and over the last 5 years of
their life as a trio, Happy New Year finally documents the community and spirit that Oneida cultivated in a city that gives short shrift to such ide-
als. By the time this record reaches your hands, Oneida’s hand-built recording studio and rehearsal space of the past five years will have been bull-
dozed to make way for a housing and shopping bazaar designed and owned by the principal partners in the Mall of America. Brooklyn is changing,
Oneida is changing, and this record stands as the document of a joyous time. Loss, fortitude, resignation, passivity and rebellion are all hallmarks
of Happy New Year, as they should be. It’s a record to mark the end of an era in Brooklyn music and to celebrate the rebirth of idealism in a harsh
climate of profiteering.

Happy New Year stands as the crowning statement in Oneida’s ten year existence as avatars of the Brooklyn indie rock world and features their
most beautiful, harsh and enduring music. It also features the stunning artwork of up and coming Brooklyn artist Dan Schechter whose acclaimed
work on The Wedding brought him long overdue recognition as one of the leading young figures in design in the country.

Oneida will be touring the United States on the release of this record in July of 2006 with their newly baptized fourth member, Double Rainbow
(a.k.a. Phil Manley of Trans Am and The Fucking Champs).

Oneida “Happy New Year”

on JAGJAGUWAR, catalog no: JAG100

Release date: July 11th, 2006

Format: CD/LP (VINYL NON-RETURNABLE)

CD BOX LOT: 25 units

LP BOX LOT: 30 units

CD UPC: 656605210025

LP UPC: 656605210018

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Happy New Year

Distress • Happy New Year • The Adversary • Up with People • Pointing Fingers • History’s Great Navigators •

Busy Little Bee • Reckoning • You Can Never Tell • The Misfit • Thank Your Parents

1. For the first time in three album cycles, Oneida will be going on an extensive US tour right when their new album is released. Their live performances are leg-
endary, and will draw significant attention to the album release.

2. Oneida are not only a band. They now have their own label, called Brah Records, that is manufactured and distributed by Jagjaguwar. Two higher profile Brah
releases in particular, by Oakley Hall and Home, will draw ancillary attention to Oneida’s collective instincts.

3. Have recently collaborated with fellow New Yorkers the Liars on the split EP called Atheists, Reconsider, which substantially heightened their profile. Both Happy
New Year and their previous record The Wedding feature members of Trans Am and Home (see above). Also, Phil Manley of Trans Am has just been baptized the
fourth member of Oneida, being newly dubbed Double Rainbow.

4. Their momentum has been steadily on the uprise, building on the many press accolades that last year’s The Wedding garnered. In addition, Oneida will continue to
release, through Jagjaguwar and Brah Records, split 12-inch records with other high profile bands like Kinski, Black Mountain and Ex Models, all to come out over
the next year. This should keep Oneida in the public eye for some time.