Customer Reviews

Oneida Road

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This is an excellent album from start to finish. I have played it for many people in my car and no one has disliked it. After hearing "Top of Your Head" and "Ash Wednesday," it was an easy purchase. The rest of the album followed nicely.

Rolling indie rock with catchy melodies and harmonies. A perfect driving disc.

Driving rhythms, tuneful harmonies, intelligent, poetic and nostalgic lyrics. An eclectic mix of indie rock, folk and country music from upstate New York.

Seeing them live is a joyous and uplifting experience and should not be missed for those who live in the northeast. My 22 year old son invited me to see them in Troy, NY. The student has now become the teacher.

My rating is actually four and a half stars out of selfishness because the CD is short on time and I wanted more.

he Kamikaze Hearts - Oneida Road (Tangled Up!)
Nodding respectfully to both Jay Farrar and Michael Stipe as they overtake on the outside, The Kamikaze Hearts seem well placed for `next big thing' status in the indie folk / alt. country stakes. Certainly a UK label helps - Tangled Up appears to be part of the well respected One Little Indian media empire - and this fine debut should speed matters along. Oneida Road does just about everything right.

The ghost of Son Volt is roused on "Ash Wednesday" and equally so on "No One called You A Failure'"and while they don't appear to display the lightness of touch of a Mark Olson, or Ryan Adams at his early peak, they do manage to instill the timelessness into their sound that only the very best of their chosen genre exhibit. A deft achievement, all round.