The New Year [Official Site] will be hitting the West Coast on the road this fall, in support of their upcoming self-titled record [link].

Tour dates and more info “after the jump”

Tourdates
Thursday, Sept 18 - Granada Theatre - Dallas, TX
Friday, Sept 19 - Rudyards - Houston, TX
Saturday, Sept 20 - Emo’s Alternative Lounge - Austin, TX
Monday, Sept 22 - Launchpad - Albuquerque, NM
Tuesday, Sept 23 - Modified - Phoenix, AZ
Wednesday, Sept 24 - The Echo - Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, Sept 25 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
Friday, Sept 26 - Doug Fir Lounge - Portland, OR
Saturday, Sept 27 - Sunset Tavern - Seattle, WA
Monday, Sept 29 - Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO
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“Over the last seventeen years, in the 1990s with Bedhead and for the last decade with The New Year, Matt and Bubba Kadane have done all they could to avoid feeling rushed in making a record. Records need time to be coherent, and coherence — even thin thematic coherence — is what makes records worth more than a mere collection of songs.

The most recent payoff of this approach is The New Year’s newest self-titled release, the culmination of four years of song-writing and a year of recording. 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. Even the lack of a record title seems deliberate in suggesting that this is the culmination of everything this band has tried to achieve.“

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