Real Estate
You want sunny. You want relaxed. You want proof that someone, anywhere, is struggling through the summer just like you are. You also want a killer pop record. Doesn't matter where it's from - this sound is universal. You want Real Estate.
As it stands, these kids hail from New Jersey. A small detail normally, sure, but this fact oozes through every pore of their sun-drenched sound. They pine for the place, meaning the record isn't all beaches, Budweiser, and Sprite but suburbia and Atlantic City too. Because, shit, the beach is even better when you've just escaped from the most depressing place in the world.
What the intrepid Messrs, Courtney, Mondanile, Bleeker and Duguay - now plying their trade in Brooklyn, along with about a billion other indie darlings - accomplish with Real Estate is the ideal synthesis of laconic ethos, chiming surf guitar, muffled vocals and rubbery bass. It's not just beach music, it's summer music. To fill every nook and cranny of every day when you stick to the leather. You take the good with the bad, but take it from me, with Real Estate, you're taking the good.
Release: LP
To Cure: This City
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