
The New Year
2003 · From Transatlanticism
A field recording of distant Seattle freeway noise opens the album, then the guitars come crashing in behind Gibbard.
★ 5.3

A field recording of distant Seattle freeway noise opens the album, then the guitars come crashing in behind Gibbard.

Burns said he took the song down from an old man; Stanley's 1910 disc is probably the first commercial recording.