The New Year takes its time getting here

But the wait may be worth it. The indie band rings in its third album in nine years tonight at the Echo. On the long list of indie bands that deserve wider hearing -- Quasi, the Ladybug Transistor, the Clientele -- sits the New Year, a mild-mannered group whose songs begin as reflective, melancholy odes and transform themselves into chiming cathedrals of sound.

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