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- Summary: The triple album is the second of the band's "Thank Your Parents" trilogy of releases.
- Record Label: Jagjaguwar
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 17
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Mixed: 7 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Rated O is relentless enough and mean enough and playful enough to rope us in for 3 albums worth of music.
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Oneida's show-your-working approach undoubtedly justi?es judicious use of the skip button, but the best bits of Rated O are well worth digging for.
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The album’s creeping ambience and modest pace make it great background music at work, but its many sub-themes and intricacies also make it a rewarding sit-down listen if you can spare an hour and 40 minutes.
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It’s not that Rated O isn’t a good album. At least half of it is one of the best albums of the year. It’s that Rated O is just good enough and in a straightforward enough way to make you miss the Oneida that was about joyous, staggering confusion.
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Q MagazineThough the quality rarely dips, at almost 2 hours long it does get rather wearing. [Aug 2009, p.110]
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The cuts are manic psychedelic jams--there’s even a sitar--riding electronic drones and throbbing, insistent riffs. Timbres of instruments are barbed with fuzz tone and static; the voices that infrequently appear might be shouting unintelligibly or nearly buried in the mix.
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Over the course of three fuzzed-out discs, there’s one solid Oneida album to be found in here. You just have to wade through some indulgent, excessive, and flat-out boring instrumental passages to get to it.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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Kid_NapindajauzJul 29, 2009O to the vein and mind.
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LeobenCJul 15, 2009Pure O.
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trafficsoundsAug 11, 2009Long live the O.
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