"Kiddo you’re nearly one year / No hesitation or fear / Chartreuse baby yoda head in mouth / I need that entropy right now / When gamified is life, they’ll show us who to fight / And it’s been going that way for a long long time..."
The giddy pixy stix sugar high of "Tryptophantastic" by the wonderfully wonky Brooklyn power pop / indie rock outfit Onesie, [Led by songwriter/guitarist/singer Ben Haberland, and joined by fellow lifers Rob Lanterman (Shrugdealer, Hidden Home Records) on guitar, Jason Bauers (Lie About, Better Plastic, Sharkswimmer, Behold...The Arctopus) on drums, and Ernie D'Amaso (Automat0m, Ernest Ernie & The Sincerities) on bass], is wonderfully joyful and youthful like Disneyland when you are 6 years old. A starkly clever blend of power pop, art rock, twee and glam done up in progressive tightly wound way I couldn't help but think of iconic artists like Miracle Legion, XTC, Magnetic Fields, Sparks, Of Montreal (and thereabouts).
I am loving the bouncy nature of this track, the bending sort of jangle pop meets glam guitars, the lush whimsical melodies, the big (fucking big) musical breakdowns that feel like massive art rock pieces (if ever so brief) and the lyrical content that is just curious enough to make me want to read between the lines but smartly shaped enough to just be happy to hear them as something lovely and beautifully poetic. I don't, after all, have to be plunged into existential places but I love lyrics, songs that entertain while pushing at those deep emotional pools of ruminations and / or that wonder that the horribleness of life has sanded away.
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):
[BK weirdo power poppers Onesie are set to unleash a dynamic DOUBLE A SIDE mere weeks before the release of their LP Way Thousand Bump To The Sky on Sell The Heart Records. "Tryptophantastic" is a jaunty, bouncy love letter to the kids inheriting a ruptured world, complete with a wish to live long enough to see Haley's comet swing by a surviving human population in 2061. Featuring a blown out, descending chorus for the ages and shimmering guest vocals from Brooklyn neighbor Allison Langerak, it's one of the band's most open-hearted and longing stompers, not unlike something you'd find on Blur's self-titled.]
"Tryptophantastic" exists on Onesie's brand new album "Way Thousand Bump to the Sky" that I have not yet dived into, it dropped on June 18, 2026,
More LINER NOTES:
"Tryptophantastic" exists on Onesie's brand new album "Way Thousand Bump to the Sky" that I have not yet dived into, it dropped on June 18, 2026,
More LINER NOTES:
[Following a trilogy of albums that straddled the line between jangly, confectionary Brit invasion psyche pop and maximalist 90s guitar laceration, Onesie principal Ben Haberland envisioned recording a quick EP of live ready bangers. If only that level of self control were an option. If 2023's Liminal Hiss captured the languid sound of lockdown-induced basement experimentation, the walloping Way Thousand Bump To The Sky blasts its dense, blissed out, pissed off, technicolor manifesto onto an IMAX screen. It’s as if slacker rock itself had 35 minutes to get its affairs in order before the electric chair.]
LYRICS
LYRICS
Kiddo you’re nearly one year
No hesitation or fear
Chartreuse baby yoda head in mouth
I need that entropy right now
When gamified is life, they’ll show us who to fight
And it’s been going that way for a long long time
Can’t get their boots off our necks
So we lick them instead
You’ll have to fix the mistakes
Of the Tryptophantastic
Why don’t they take the USA
And we’ll carve a little space
And when that naked eye comet comes though
Pre ‘62
I hope that I will be with you
And staring at the sky
Haley blows our minds
And I’m so glad to be with you
Maybe you’ll be in LA
Or dwelling in Mammoth cave
Oh please don’t make the same mistakes
Please live to find another way
Through the Tryptophantastic
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
https://soundcloud.com/onesieband
https://onesieband.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/onesieband/
https://www.facebook.com/onesieband
ABOUT
Led by songwriter/guitarist/singer Ben Haberland, and joined by fellow lifers Rob Lanterman (Shrugdealer, Hidden Home Records) on guitar, Jason Bauers (Lie About, Better Plastic, Sharkswimmer, Behold...The Arctopus) on drums, and Ernie D'Amaso (Automat0m, Ernest Ernie & The Sincerities) on bass, Brooklyn, NYC's Onesie have spent the last eight years chiseling out their own idiosyncratic place in the musical landscape. Combining the trim, confectionary songwriting of 70s power pop, the socially aware wit and jangling hooks of 80s indie/brit pop, and the sledgehammer crunch of 90s DIY punk hardcore, the group have released three albums of timeless, catchy af jams that transmute our collective neuroses into something that will make you dance, air guitar, laugh, and cry…often in the same verse.
If 2023's Liminal Hiss captured the languid sound of lockdown-induced basement experimentation, the walloping Way Thousand Bump To The Sky (due Summer 2026 on Sell The Heart Records) blasts its dense, blissed out, pissed off, technicolor manifesto onto an IMAX screen. It’s as if slacker rock itself had 35 minutes to get its affairs in order before the electric chair.
Recorded by Guided By Voices perma-engineer and Built To Spill producer Travis Harrison at Serious Business, the album distills the band’s “information rich” arrangements into eleven shots of pure power pop adrenaline, slammed straight to the broken heart and buzzing, neurotic mind.
As a genre bending catch-all project for timeless, obtuse guitar pop, Onesie remain difficult to categorize, but for those looking for a turbocharged testament to substance in an increasingly vapid musical landscape, here comes your band.
No hesitation or fear
Chartreuse baby yoda head in mouth
I need that entropy right now
When gamified is life, they’ll show us who to fight
And it’s been going that way for a long long time
Can’t get their boots off our necks
So we lick them instead
You’ll have to fix the mistakes
Of the Tryptophantastic
Why don’t they take the USA
And we’ll carve a little space
And when that naked eye comet comes though
Pre ‘62
I hope that I will be with you
And staring at the sky
Haley blows our minds
And I’m so glad to be with you
Maybe you’ll be in LA
Or dwelling in Mammoth cave
Oh please don’t make the same mistakes
Please live to find another way
Through the Tryptophantastic
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://soundcloud.com/onesieband
https://onesieband.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/onesieband/
https://www.facebook.com/onesieband
ABOUT
Led by songwriter/guitarist/singer Ben Haberland, and joined by fellow lifers Rob Lanterman (Shrugdealer, Hidden Home Records) on guitar, Jason Bauers (Lie About, Better Plastic, Sharkswimmer, Behold...The Arctopus) on drums, and Ernie D'Amaso (Automat0m, Ernest Ernie & The Sincerities) on bass, Brooklyn, NYC's Onesie have spent the last eight years chiseling out their own idiosyncratic place in the musical landscape. Combining the trim, confectionary songwriting of 70s power pop, the socially aware wit and jangling hooks of 80s indie/brit pop, and the sledgehammer crunch of 90s DIY punk hardcore, the group have released three albums of timeless, catchy af jams that transmute our collective neuroses into something that will make you dance, air guitar, laugh, and cry…often in the same verse.
If 2023's Liminal Hiss captured the languid sound of lockdown-induced basement experimentation, the walloping Way Thousand Bump To The Sky (due Summer 2026 on Sell The Heart Records) blasts its dense, blissed out, pissed off, technicolor manifesto onto an IMAX screen. It’s as if slacker rock itself had 35 minutes to get its affairs in order before the electric chair.
Recorded by Guided By Voices perma-engineer and Built To Spill producer Travis Harrison at Serious Business, the album distills the band’s “information rich” arrangements into eleven shots of pure power pop adrenaline, slammed straight to the broken heart and buzzing, neurotic mind.
As a genre bending catch-all project for timeless, obtuse guitar pop, Onesie remain difficult to categorize, but for those looking for a turbocharged testament to substance in an increasingly vapid musical landscape, here comes your band.
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