<p>A song is a song until it isn’t, until it’s pushed to its limits and beyond to become harder, faster, and more dissonant. The music on Oneida’s 17th full-length album, Expensive Air, all started as tightly structured, melodic rock songs, then broke open these structures through the instinctual, improvisatory interplay, honed to razor sharpness in two years of live performance.</p><p>“Success is like laughing in a car gunning carelessly through an ice storm,” says Bobby Matador, “and Expensive Air is how you laugh at yourself as the car spins into the ditch, or a tree. Same trip, but a little closer to the bone.”</p><iframe-embed src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZNvymduvmtk?si=r0ofh9wpgCvffMsu" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" height="315" width="560" style="" metaposition="flex-start" metatype="youtube"></iframe-embed><p></p>