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- Summary: The rock band from New York releases its first album in a planned three-album trilogy the band is calling Thank Your Parents.
- Record Label: Jagjaguwar
- Genre(s): Rock, Experimental
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 19
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Mixed: 4 out of 19
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Negative: 1 out of 19
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On Preteen Weaponry, it patiently carves its own landscape and brews up the weather to go with it.
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Weaponry is essential: a particularly overwhelming headphones album not unlike some of Boredoms' more hypnotic work.
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It seems nothing can stop them from releasing a good-to-great album each ear, and Preteen Weaponry is another sensation that will likely be taken for granted.
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The incredible ride finishes not with a bang but with a whimper. Preteen Weaponry isn't much more than a 39-minute sonic experiment for a band seeking a new direction, but it's such a mindfuck to listen to, who cares where it ends up?
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Alternative Press'Part 2' is the album's most intense track, 'Part 3' is it's most intriguing. [Sep 2008, p.150]
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Oneida have always been a thick stew of different influences, but usually with a dash of originality to bind it together; Preteen Weaponry never rises above pastiche. Nevertheless, the band’s hypnotic drone sweeps through the album like a swift current — it’s enough to generate anticipation for their future travels.
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Presumably the climax of the whole stumbling, stoned expedition arrives about halfway through the latter half, when some synthy Gregorian chant-style vocals trudge into the mix for a few seconds, but by the time the album reaches its dingy conclusion and fades back into feedback loops and distant alien static noises, Oneida seems to have inadvertently demonstrated only one thing: that, dude, having, like, rad conceptual ideas and high aspirations does not a good album make.