May 21 2008
The New Year Reveal Title, Tracks
Photo by Allison Smith
Since my last post, The New Year has released the title and tracklisting for their forthcoming record. The album will be self titled and will contain the following:
1. Folios
2. The Company I Can Get
3. X Off Days
4. The Door Opens
5. MMV
6. Seven Days and Seven Nights
7. Wages of Sleep
8. Body and Soul
9. My Neighborhood
10. The Idea of You
Here’s a statement from Touch & Go:
New Album this September from The New Year
Exciting news and times! The New Year has emerged from the studio with 10 songs that will comprise their upcoming self-titled album, to be released September 9, 2008.
The Brothers Kadane, along w/ the rest of the group, have been making music for the last 17 years - in the 1990s with Bedhead and for the last decade with The New Year. They take their time making records, and this is only their third, and the first since 2004’s The End is Near.
Lyrically, these ten songs address the interlocked themes of lost time, frustrated desire, and the need for others. Although musically these may be the band’s most varied songs — for a band that made innovative use of three guitars, almost half the songs here are built around the piano — it is the careful sequence of these songs that brings the story the lyrics tell together. The New Year will be touring the US and Europe as a full band this fall, and the Kadane Brothers are on tour this summer with Bottomless Pit.
really exciting news hugh, I had no idea they were working on anything. I picked up the soundtrack to “Hell House” in DC the other day (it was six bucks), but other than that I haven’t heard anything from these guys in sooo long.