Walkmen, The - In The New Year Lyrics

The first time I ever heard this band or heard OF them was in 2002 ,when I saw them on Conan O'Brian and I wrote about it in my diary. 😂😂😂😂😂

boys need to get out of hiatus and create again...

Melhor que Bob Dylan.

Es la banda que más me agrada por su autenticidad, sus fallas son su perfección.
Arte puro, no es una perfecta repetición de sus canciones. Cada composición es interpretada según el día, el momento, el lugar. La banda es muy honesta, da prestigio al rock alternativo.
Unos capos.

What a stellar performance

Tremenda banda.

Wow. This song grabbed me when I first heard it, and I listen to it at least once every year. But this, his voice is just amazing - it's got a texture or dimension to it that isn't in the other version. The guitar too.

YES!! Definitely the best version of the song... love it!

So underrated

🙌🏽whoop🙌🏽

I'm currently living this song since January, we'll see how this year goes. Every time the sun seems to be rising a big gust of wind blows out the light. I wonder how it will feel in 3 years, listening to this song and recalling 2018.

Certainement le meilleur groupe de rock alternatif

I love this song

Can somebody please bring The Walkmen back for fuck's sake?

Ham's voice f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck etc etc

The trajectory they took from scratchy rockers to straight up crooning is incredible. This stuff holds up incredibly well. Here's to a reunion one day!

((( <3 )))

High wire act. Insane

great singer

love this track. love this band.

The three times I saw them play this live, I cried each and every time. Their shows were just that seriously ethereal and emotional. Criminally underrated band, for sure.

His voice is epic!!!

play "the rat"

alright, i'll go back 8 years and give them the memo.

😂😂😂😂😂

just fucking brilliant. goose bump music. nice one fellas

i have a love story with this song

1 great effort,even if you mashed your voice.which happened to the band and roy orbinson is still a legend.

honestly,with that voice and band,how come such pointless views it is pathetic.

people are clueless to this band.

Hamilton Leithauser is definitely one of the most underrated vocalists of modern music. His high notes in the song are flawless.

My god... my god. And im atheist.

one complying song.

@erule92 Agreed.  nobody I know has heard of them. 

Same here ;-;

@Chris Quinn listen to "everyone who pretended to like me is gone" every song on that album is money.

Happy new year you all folks!

Fucking nailed it! It's like the perfect marriage between Dylan and Tom Waits... Breathtaking.

Just saw them again Friday and he sounded great. I have seen him sound a little raspy like this before though. What sets the walkmen apart is how they induce real emotion with almost every song with music and lyrics. That's what I've realized makes music timeless. Some catchy tempo and b.s. lyrics can make a good song, but it gets played out and you don't find yourself returning to it eventually. I can see myself listening to this shit for f$%king ever.

I have a real love-hate relationship with this song. I love it because it's awesome, and I hate it because I can't sing along to it! Ham's range is still downright enviable, even if he can't belt it out to the same degree anymore.

"portrayed better than" I mean. I saw them with my now fiancee at the Blue Note in Columbia, Missouri last year. They were supporting The New Pornographers, and they just made them look stupid. Brought the damn house down. Gee can you tell I'm a fan?

Hamilton Liethauser has the kind of voice that picks you up by the scruff of the neck, slams you hard against a concrete wall. takes all your money, then drops you and kicks your head in repeatedly, and all you can do at the end is say "Thank you. That was the greatest experience of my life." No where else is that portrayed in this particular version of this song. His voice is quite simply lethal.

WHO CARES!

i know its true...

What a voice, that's what it's all about. Giving all of yourself to the music!

what a great fucking performance. i have no words to describe this.!

If you dig the walkmen - hunt down "Jonathan Fire*Eater" - same band w/ a different lead singer. Great song writing - well worth the effort.

@TreadingLemming Listen to all their tracks and see what you think, they are too many good songs to just pick a few out is unfair to the others. Go from the 1st album to their most recent their 5th although you can skip their 3rd one, they were transitioning into this sound from their previous albums and it quite wasn't their yet. But all of the albums have something unique in them

@TreadingLemming Hear "Juveniles" "Woe Is Me" "They're Winning" "The Rat" "Blizzard of 96" "Canadian Girl"

Epic voice

yeah. make more. like that.

@StandardofPurity Thanks for the tip....not as good as this number. I'm truly impressed with this one and, more than ever, I'm wondering if this is all there is? I write/sing in a DC band and we've just released our first full length CD. We're up for a possible Wammy nomination. I'd love to open for a band that does a lot of stuff like this. Even though we're pretty pop/Brit-pop...I LOVE this song and it's feel and apparent longing.

@TreadingLemming Listen to Angela Surf City and be blown away

Having listened to four or five other songs by this band, it is difficult for me to understand the commotion...Until I hear this number...What PASSION! WOW...I wish I'd written it!!

Dude!!
He LOVES singing this song!!!!
Double thumbs up!!!!!!!!

These guys are superb! Can listen to them all day long!

RL

every time i hear this, i realize why i love to be alive. i would marry this dude.
beautiful music these dudes make.

This song brings me to tears