wasn't released until 2004, though the film first appeared in 2001. Brokaw released solo recordings, played on recordings by Evan Dando and Consonant and collaborated on a project with playwright Rinde Eckert. Peter Schmidt played with the Legendary Crystal Chandelier, whose second and final album, Beyond Indifference, was released at about the same time as Newness Ends. The End Is Near (2004) In 2003 the members regrouped as The New Year to record the material that would become their album The End Is Near. The album, released by Touch & Go Records in May 2004, was again recorded by Steve Albini. Positively received in publications such as the Dusted Magazine, the band filmed a music video (a first for the Kadanes) for the song "Disease" to accompany the album. The album yielded the band's most popular single, "The End's Not Near," which quickly garnered over a hundred thousand views on YouTube. The New Year (2008) A third album by The New Year, The New Year, was released on September 9, 2008. The material is described by Touch and Go Records in a press release stating, "Lyrically, these ten songs address the interlocked themes of lost time, frustrated desire, and the need for others." Like with their other albums, the songs have three guitars. The New Year, however, was new in that almost half the songs are built around the piano. The album was well-received, earning 4.5/5 stars from Allmusic and 7.5 from Pitchfork Media. A generally positive review by Pitchfork praised the album's more cheerful melodies and hopeful lyrics, while noting the melancholy sound of the band's previous releases was intact on many of the songs. Will Johnson from the band Centro-matic accompanied the band on the US leg of its autumn 2008 tour. Overseas and Snow (2017) In June 2012 drummer Chris Brokaw posted on his website that "The New Year has begun work on a new LP in Chicago, again with Mr. Steve Albini at the controls." In early 2012 Bubba and Matt Kadane formed Overseas with David Bazan of Pedro The Lion and Will Johnson of Centro-matic. Their debut album was officially announced on April 4, 2013 and was released on June 11, 2013. The band announced in early 2017 that their fourth album, titled Snow, would be released through the Undertow Music Collective. Snow is the first album by the group to not be issued through