What better antidote to a week at the doomsayer's ball than The Walkmen's tremendous new open letter to all who've lost hope, "In the New Year." Feeling a little down in the mouth? Try this fucker out:
They lyrics are desperate but hopeful, foolishly naive, a little pathetic, and they're relentlessly compelled to the revelation that life is defined by your response to a seemingly endless string of disappointments--the revelation that hopefully caps off adolescence--by the driving, dissonant guitar strum, the gigantic drums, and the warbling, confident vocal performance. God, this is a good song. Damn right, I'm still alive.
Favorite lyrics:
"I know that its true--its gonna be a good year
Out of the darkness and into the fire"
