Onesie - Liminal Hiss

 

It has been four long years since the last Onesie album, you can read the review of that album, Umpteenth, here. That album featured heavily in the I Don't Hear A Single Best Albums of 2019. Their third album doesn't really move the goalposts, it doesn't need to, but it does develop their career further.

The Brooklyn quartet are masters of intelligent left field pop. They are very much The Sugarplastic for the next generation. Few have ever matched our beloved Sugarplastic, but Onesie do. The vibe and arrangements are certainly there as are the intelligent lyric led songs.

They even have a way of making songs seem simplistic when repeated listens reveal their depth and allow you to marvel at the unusual and unexpected riffs. There will be XTC comparisons and the foursome do sound like a much more electric version of Field Music. 

There are departures too. Morning Warren is all Funk with added Brass and Cash For Trash has an unusually 80s vibe. Rat Island even goes all UK New Wave and is built on a great riff. Another Day In The Experiment even gets all Slacker Rock. 

Cross The Night is not a million miles away from Dream Pop. Live Yuppie Scum is a great name for a song and the slowed down closer is as Rock as this lot get, The 5 and a minute length allows a lot to be packed in, very Mommyheads and just as great, It is epic. 

It is however the minimalism of the likes of Perma Spring, What You Kill and Robocall that appeal most to me. Probably because I am such a Sugarplastic fan, that I am just delighted to hear another band who can do what they did. Album Of The Year Material!

You can listen to and buy the album here.

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