In the very odd case that you have yet to be convinced that The Ill-Tempered Klavier is the best non-rap record ever to contain the word Ill, I submit today’s Song of the Day as evidence and hope you will be persuaded.
“New Year” is the sort of song I can’t help but listen to over and over again and I usually end up imagining a future movie in which it will be the soundtrack to a montage of a middle-aged guy cleaning his house, watering his plants, hugging his kids, finishing his long toiled-over first novel, baking a pie, dancing in the rain, delivering a newborn calf, beating Apollo Creed in a foot race, and most likely joining an inner-city chorus line as fireworks erupt and people in a hundred countries across the globe spontaneously break into song, hold hands, and offer to buy each other a coke. Just listen to it, you’ll see.