Recommended. The New Year is Matt and Bubba Kadane, formerly of Bedhead, and this record continues the brothers' evolution as songwriters. The delicate and intricate guitar work still plays an integral part, but these songs are more concise, more experimental rhythmically, and deliberately more immediate. Beauty has never left you this off balance.

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The New Year is a band that features the Kadane brothers, Matt and Bubba, leaders of the great, late band Bedhead. In 1998, after seven years, three critically acclaimed full-length albums, two EPs, and various singles, Bedhead split. The Kadane brothers, never intending to quit playing music, recruited three old friends to play the songs that would have eventually made the fourth Bedhead record had they remained together. Enlisting the help of one-time Saturnine bassist Mike Donofrio and Chris Brokaw from    [ read more ]

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First new material from The New Year in four years. Lyrically, these ten songs address the interlocked themes of lost time, frustrated desire, and the need for others. Although musically these may be the group'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's the sequence of these tracks that brings together the story the lyrics tell.[ read more ]

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