  cover art  Nurse & Soldier   (Jagjaguwar; US: 23 Jan 2007; UK:
29 Jan 2007)  There’s a reason why fans of Oneida stay as
fiercely loyal as they do—it’s because Oneida is a band that
enjoys frolicking in genres, discovering new instruments, new
arrangements, and new sounds on a continual basis, while still
grounding such rabid exploration in a digestible 4/4 context.
Yet if you are, like many, not familiar with Oneida, then fear
not what lies ahead: as you will discover, a pop side project of
one particular Oneidan (Bobby Matador) with his longtime
collaborator Erica Fletcher. It’s Mates of State with a touch of
stoner crank; it’s a ‘60s psych-rock record tossed into a
modern-day studio; it’s an album that’s just ... fun.  Any
diehards will know that Marginalia is actually the second album
from the duo, but the first eponymous 7” is a rarity to find
these days, and perhaps for the better: it was a dry-run of some
of the stoner-rock numbers that Oneida did just fine by itself
(though “The 7-11 Song” proved qu