Real Estate. Not Sunny Day. Just Real Estate.

"Navigator" is my favorite. Chorus reminds me of something I think but I can't figure out what.

The instrumental track "April's Song" is the one i've been playing over and over.

"Primitive" is great too. This band definitely captures the new jersey i know better than springsteen.

re influences I don't know galaxie 500 that well but I hear some of that in in real estate's earlier, less polished stuff

No one's mentioned a distortion less Ride?

The "country" one on this is very yo la tengo

does bleeker have a track on atlas? wonder years is one of my faves from days.

atlas is great but I miss the valedictory album-ending jam

Bleeker does have a track, though it's not as sunny as Wonder Years.

his song on this almost sounds like a christian hymn

which is?

his song i mean

"how might I live"

that's the one that sounds most like Luna.

Yeah, that's my least favorite. :)

^ gets it

The "country" one on this is very yo la tengo

that was the one that stuck out the most to me when I listened this afternoon

it's the one that stands out the most that's for sure but i think it's my least favorite, which isn't to say i dislike it.

It's never occurred to me that I should listen to Real Estate, but reading this thread has convinced me I would like them.

Real Estate has something in common with early Clientele

going to check them out now.

does anyone remember late 90s indie also-rans Silver Scooter? I basically only know this one song, but I feel like my infatuation with it prefigured my love of Real Estate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ov6rh5Ym0A

"Navigator" is my favorite. Chorus reminds me of something I think but I can't figure out what.

― Evan, Monday, March 3, 2014 1:59 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Exactly how I feel.

Actually it's been obsessing me.

probably not what you're thinking of but Navigator chorus kinda reminds me of the Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait chorus, "lights that flash in the evening..."

this album is starting to click for me.

there's a hazy, lilting nostalgic feel to it that i hadn't picked up in their music before.

i wonder if anyone else is getting a mild simon & garfunkel vibe from this.

These guys were a glass of lemonade on an 89-degree afternoon two years ago at Pitchfork Festival, but, man this album is mush. It's The Ocean Blue again.

"Navigator" is my favorite. Chorus reminds me of something I think but I can't figure out what.

― Evan, Monday, March 3, 2014 1:59 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Exactly how I feel.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, March 5, 2014 11:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Actually it's been obsessing me.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, March 5, 2014 11:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Closest I've come to a maybe is Pink Frost by The Chills. Still browsing my library...

Maybe a Bats song... I'm figuring there isn't a really direct example, but I'm not sure.

This???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jlJA6VK5_c

ARGH!

Torture, really.

Really top notch song there by the Bats though.

Highly recommend it to other Real Estate fans.

I was just listening to Pink Frost and thinking I wish more pop sounded like this!

That song is SO good

Real Estate is good and all, but nowhere near Pink Frost level good.

I don't think anyone here said so!

i was just cautioning Jacob Sanders that if he's looking for another Pink Frost on a Real Estate lp he'll get close, but not quite. and the search will be enjoyable.

Oh true! I didn't originally consider that maybe he meant, "...therefore I will check out Real Estate now"

So I finally listened to Atlas and I really like it! They don't sound anything like I had imagined. I don't hear much yo la tengo at all, everything is more understated and they maintain a a vibe throughout. It sounds very AOR to me. It gives me a similar feeling when I first heard 'Here Come The Cars.' Also reminds me of a lot of pop from Sweden or Norway, or yeah New Zealand.

lovely album. i generally hate pitchfork's reviews but the review of "atlas" is quite otm indeed.

The Ocean Blue! Now this album makes me think of being a 10 or 11-year-old, by myself at a water park, listening to Ballerina Out Of Control on FM radio, through my Walkman.

I like this record. All the songs sound the same but they all sound good.

I like it too...much more than I initially thought!

I started getting into the Clientele because of all the mentions here. (Not sure why I never checked them out, a lot of college radio friends of mine liked them back in the day.) "Suburban Light" has kind of crowded out "Atlas" in my listening rotation haha. Although I don't see the similarities that much, to be honest. The Clientele seem very '60s, light-psych, Zombies influenced in a way I don't hear w/ Real Estate at all.

It's more of the pretty clean melodic guitar emphasis and a consistent sameness of material that link both I think. I could have worded that better but I'm lazy at the moment.

i'm still undecided how much of an advancement this is over their last album but as a piece of craftsmanship it's pretty amazing.

So if I like this record I should get their back catalog? Atlas is quickly become one of my favorite records to listen from start to finish, especially while driving.

i love the previous one, Days.

yeah jacob get the others for sure