I've been meaning to post something for weeks and weeks about Brooklyn band Real Estate, another pioneering group in the increasingly popular psychedelic surf pop movement which I've been heavily overindulging myself in recently.
In the same vein as all my blog favourites such as Surfer Blood, Girls and Best Coast - Real Estate make snippets of 60s pop psychedelia coated in fuzzy reverb and drenched in sunny harmonies. The difference between this band and the others is the total chillout mentality they show across their entire self-titled debut album, leading to a whole load of comparisons to the other chillwave bands of late.
Unlike their synth laden companions such as Toro y Moi, Washed Out and Neon Indian they make chilled out surfer pop music with more of a classic rock influence than one from electronica. Again, another feature sets them apart from bands like Surfer Blood and Woods is the fact that they coat their meaningful and heartfelt lyrics in meaningful and heartfelt music. As with most of the albums I've been posting about recently, this is another one for your Sunday morning collection.
Real Estate is bassy and slow-paced with occasional bursts of energy across the ten-track Woodsist Records release. The spaced out vocals of Martin Courtney don't feature heavily - and when they do, its more the notes they hold than the lyrics they deliver. It's not shoegaze, but at times the lyrics make more of a background appearance in relation to the simple melodies than a dominant one.
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