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Songs We Love: The New Year, 'Mayday'

With couplets as clean and exact as the guitars that chime neatly around them, the mathematical precision of "Mayday" never gets in the way of shaggy, ragged beauty.
The New Year's new album is titled <em>Snow</em>.

When the Texas band got in 2014, the reissue provided an excellent chance to revisit the recorded legacy of Matt and Bubba Kadane, who've

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