Real Estate. Not Sunny Day. Just Real Estate.

I would have liked to go to that. used to live in Astoria and always wondered why the beer garden never had bands.

I really like 'Green Aisles'

yeah i think green aisles is my favorite track on the album
the beer garden show was fun, they're a good band to have play in sunshine.

If anything, this is indie-rock comfort food, but so what? Pretty, almost too pretty. A fuck of a lot of bands mine a similar sound (neo-college rock?). So few get it right and make it sing that it's no wonder these guys are getting serious press.

Growing to really love this album.

The "It's Real" video features dogs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HWcViTXdYc

"It's Real" is a great track but I haven't really been able to get into the album.

Coachella performance is streaming now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKJ9RE1q7Hw

i don't mind these guys but every single one of their songs sounds like "no rain" by blind melon with more boring vocals

nah, however said they were like an amerindie version of the clientele was otm. love the album.

they sound almost exactly like McCarthy without the politics. which rules.
they really frontloaded that second album though. the whole thing is great but the first 3 or 4 tracks just kill.

this stuff sounds a little like early aztec camera and felt to me. i like it.

they are fun + chill live, good vibes, nice to see them in the summer

yeah they were surprisingly good live, i thought. the album is definitely very nice. the whole family likes it, which is rare!

I get a Field Mice vibe too.

this is such a nice album

One of the only modern records that I can't seem to get burnt out on, and I imagine it'll age really well.

I always semi-liked these guys but I am fully on board now after I've been listening to "Days" a ton since it came out. it's a great album and they were great live this past Saturday. covered the Clean! (Anything Could Happen)

also I never realized Alex Bleeker sings the lead vocal on Wonder Years

my three year old loves this record. and so do i!

Reasons like that are the most attractive thing to me about someday having kids :)

http://pitchfork.com/news/47473-watch-real-estate-perform-new-song/

The little guitar hook has a Destroyer vibe to it.

NEW RECORD IS HERE....ITS A DOOZY!!!!!!!!!!!!

when is it actually out?

March.

Only 4 tracks in but yeah, this is exactly what you expect = perfection

sweet

nice! i had totally forgotten about these guys

New track!!

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

v. good track

Decent tune, not too distinctive on its own, though I think of these guys as more of an album band. I think their songs work best in the context of an album-long listening experience, where they can establish a mood and play with subtle variations on their formula.

Agreed, though mix any of their songs (at least from their last album) in with a late 80s early 90s indie pop mix and I think they fit very nicely.

Not bad. I tend to agree with o. nate.

melody doesn't really stick

Generic

whole album is lovely. whole album is Real Estate.

Very excited.

Track + video:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16682-real-estate-crime/

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9342-real-estate-suburban-dreams/

I'm seriously exactly the same guy as all three of these dudes and can directly relate (though I'm from only a few towns over) to a million of these sentiments.

I really need to start a late 80s early 90s jangle pop band myself. WTF am I doing?

^Whoa. That P4K writer hit the nail on the head with that description of Real Estate's music.

That's the same kind of vibe I get from Kurt Vile (his latest album) and, to some extent, Pavement.

Yeah, that's a great profile and has me super stoker for Atlas.

on paper these guys should be so mediocre and forgettable but the execution is just so good

They aren't accessorizing with their particular influences. No novelty at all.

^Aren't accessories just other influences, as well, though?

???

Heard the album yesterday and realize how much I've missed this sound. Adventure-era Television, Yo La Tengo, Feelies, Luna, early Clientelle. Love it! What else would you put alongside it in a mix? Maybe Veronica Falls, Minks, Beach Fossils?

I put them in mixes with Field Mice, 14 Iced Bears, Ropers, Clientele, Feelies, Close Lobsters, etc. Yeah all that kind of stuff.

@Evan

Sorry, I think I misunderstood you. What do you mean by accessorise?

I mean the novelty of imitating a style of music blatantly. In their case they take from the style of the bands I listed above but it's definitely not derivative.
In my opinion.

Oh okay. I think I agree with that.

I'll check out 14 Iced Bears, Ropers, and Close Lobsters. I hope they're on Spotify!

Close Lobsters is probably no ...closer than any other 80s jangle pop band to Real Estate's song but they're great so always on the front of my mind.

Here's a good song... I admit it doesn't really sound like Real Estate beyond pretty, sunny guitar-work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U77ctQngL84&feature=kp

I'm not super-familiar with most of those referents. The band that Real Estate most reminds me of is the Sea and Cake. Granted, there's more (overt) jazz and electronics in the Sea and Cake, but I get a similar vibe -- wistful maj-7th-chord guitar-pop -- from both bands.