Haha understood!
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
listening right now to beheaded, i like it a lot.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
there would clearly be no explosions in the sky w/o these dudes
WhatFunLifeWas probably has more highlights overall, but yeah all three albums are beautiful.
One of my favorite attributes of a band is when they can capture a mundane vibe and repackage it as something beautiful without being melodramatic at all.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
However Explosions in the Sky, to my last point right there^, are nowhere near as restrained.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
lol not at all, sometimes to their benefit, others to the extreme detriment
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
There's something about a band with three clean patiently intertwining Fenders. I remember reading that after they lost their violinist (who went on the join the Dixie Chicks), they wanted to try to capture the texture of strings with their guitars.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
That's apt.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Wow, I finally heard that Overseas record. The other guys in the group are not Bedhead, but boy do the Bedhead guys get their DNA pushed upfront in this band.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
http://lebanesestudies.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2016/07/21/a-lebanese-american-rock-musician-in-texas/
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
Yay for another New Year album. I wasn't expecting one. Bedhead remains top 5 indie bands for me.
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
That New Year record has been coming out "next year" for like 5 yrs now
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
hey its out now
― Isi, Friday, 28 April 2017 12:39 (seven years ago) link
Wow, can't wait to buy!!!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 April 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Not bad, on first listen. Lots of keys on this one!
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 28 April 2017 14:19 (seven years ago) link
Not streaming, darn.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 28 April 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
I used to underrate the New Year because I loved Bedhead so much. But then, especially when the New Year became inactive, it really occurred to me how few bands do/still do/ever did what Bedhead and to an extent the New Year did so well. So I am savoring this album.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 April 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
damn "The Beast"
― Isi, Saturday, 29 April 2017 12:04 (seven years ago) link
Stream on Bandcamp. This sounds very promising. Less repetitive than Bedhead if I remember them well, more varied with hooks and stuff.https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/05/03/the-new-year-snow-review/
― Alex in Spree-Athen (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 4 May 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
This album is spectacular. I listened to it about five times today. It gets a little weaker towards the end, esp. the second last song breaks the flow but the rest is really very relaxed and melodic slowcore. Hypnotic stuff. Much better than the slightly kitschy Slowdive which is ok but gets too much press compared to this plain masterpiece.
― Alex in Spree-Athen (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 5 May 2017 21:36 (seven years ago) link
It's really great. I've found that each New Year album, from the first album on, has always been a little tougher for me to get into than Bedhead ever was, and I readily admit I was so into Bedhead that I underestimated the New Year entirely until I saw them play at the Touch & Go anniversary party way back when and they were just so good it sent me back to the first two albums, which were suddenly so awesome it was like I'd never heard them before, which was all my fault. So this one I've been paying close attention to, and the effort has really paid off.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 May 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link
Really liking this. RE: Touch and Go anniversary performance - YES - this is where I listened to 'em w/ new ears, too. That whole three days was probably my fave ever fest, and to have New Year give an eye/ear-opening performance was a treat.
― BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 6 May 2017 23:12 (seven years ago) link
Album arrived in the mail - along with yet another t-shirt saying "THE NEW YEAR" which I will have to patiently explain to people.There is a lot to like on the album, it's one of their best, or at least does not let the side down.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 00:39 (seven years ago) link
I think I actually prefer the New Year to Bedhead, who I liked in the era but those records mean more to me now then they did at the time. The New Year had me hooked pretty much right from the first record. Great band. Glad this record finally came into being.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link
The new New Year record is so good. So good.
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
Apparently an ambient New Year album was just released?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 April 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
I don't see anything on their bandcamp or site.
― Simon H., Friday, 19 April 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
on bandcamp with the name sigh of reliefdrone vibe. reminds me, so far, of andrew chalk or mirror.
― sknybrg, Friday, 19 April 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
https://sighofrelief.bandcamp.com/releasesdoes not sound like bedhead or new year, low volume drone ambient, not my cup of tea.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 20 April 2019 10:44 (five years ago) link