Days, by Real Estate

Days

by Real Estate

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Nicholas Kent My all-time favorite album, without question… green aisles has been my favorite since day one, but All the Same is constantly challenging it for the number one spot <3 Favorite track: Green Aisles.

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1.	Easy 03:53	info	buy track
2.	Green Aisles 05:01	info	buy track
3.	It's Real 02:48	info	buy track
4.	Kinder Blumen 03:55	info	buy track
5.	Out Of Tune 04:51	info	buy track
6.	Municipality 03:36	info	buy track
7.	Wonder Years 02:34	info	buy track
8.	Three Blocks 03:18	info	buy track
9.	Younger Than Yesterday 04:08	info	buy track
10.	All The Same 07:21	info	buy track

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On October 18th 2011, New Jersey’s Real Estate will release Days, their second album and first for Domino. A coming of age moment for childhood friends Martin Courtney (Guitar and Vocals), Matt Mondanile (Guitar) and Alex Bleeker (Bass), Days was recorded over the course of five patient months in a remote New Paltz, NY barn-cum-studio with the help of Kevin McMahon (Titus Andronicus, The Walkmen).

A gorgeous suite of guitar-pop songs, Days is a testament to the fact that the sonic formula Real Estate developed and shared with their debut album (Real Estate, Woodsist 2009) heralded the arrival of a new, genuine and enduring group of voices in American independent music. Days sees the band tighten and refine their brand of timeless, melodic and genuine music- consolidating the breezy sketches of their earlier work into considered, graceful pop songs.

The songs are built around deceptively simple, cyclical riffs; caressed and performed with a rhythm and restraint that is atypical for a band Real Estate's age. The instruments swim together, anchored down by Bleeker's firm Lesh-esque bass, ebbing and flowing, occasionally enriched with flourishes of country piano, soft synths and slide guitar. Several songs, like the album's rousing first single "It's Real" were written by Courtney in the way he wrote some of his first songs, laying out their architecture first on a bass rather than a guitar, allowing him to evolve the song's basic melody.

Others, like "Green Aisles" and the Bleeker-fronted "Wonder Years" formed out of extended jams, providing them a fluid structure that only a band of craftsmen could make sound so effortless and guided. Courtney has also matured as a lyricist, adeptly capturing and singing youth's most potent crystalline moments with a surgeon's precision. He wrote most of the songs on Days early in the morning, immediately upon waking up, when the unscripted promise of a new day was still in its purest form. In "Green Aisles" he sings "all those aimless drives through green aisles / our careless lifestyle, it was not so unwise". Such a sentiment is an almost perfect lens through which to view Days, the coming of age album they've made.

Days is greater than the sum of its parts, as defined by its ebullient moments as it is by its moments of restraint. Lyrically and melodically part of what makes Real Estate’s music so vital are the moments where the disarmingly simple is made unexpectedly profound.

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released October 17, 2011

2011, Domino Recording Co Ltd

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Real Estate Brooklyn, New York

New album 'Daniel' out 2/23! New song + video "Water Underground" out now. Infinite Jangle Tour onsale Friday 12/1. linktr.ee/realestateband

shows

Apr 19

Wall Street Theater

Norwalk, CT
Apr 20

Levon Helm Studio

Woodstock, NY
May 16

White Oak Music Hall

Houston, TX
May 17

Scoot Inn

Austin, TX
May 18

Tannahill's Tavern & Music Hall

Fort Worth, TX
May 20

The Truman

Kansas City, MO
May 21

Delmar Hall

St Louis, MO
May 22

The Whirling Tiger

Louisville, KY
May 23

The Basement East

Nashville, TN
May 24

The Orange Peel

Asheville, NC
May 25

Haw River Ballroom

Saxapahaw, NC
May 26

Variety Playhouse

Atlanta, GA
Sep 24

La Trabendo

Paris, France
Sep 25

Het Depot

Leuven, Belgium
Sep 26

Logo

Hamburg, Germany
Sep 28

Debaser Strand

Stockholm, Sweden
Sep 29

Lille Vega, VEGA

Copenhagen, Denmark
Sep 30

Lido

Berlin, Germany
Oct 1

TivoliVredenburg Pandora

Utrecht, Netherlands
Oct 3

Hackney Church (St John at Hackney)

London, UK
Oct 4

Leeds University Stylus

Leeds, UK
Oct 5

Newcastle University Students' Union

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Oct 6

The Garage

Glasgow, UK

discography

Daniel

Feb 2024
Half a Human

Mar 2021
The Main Thing

Feb 2020
In Mind

Mar 2017
Stained Glass

Mar 2017
Atlas

Mar 2014
Talking Backwards

Feb 2014
Days

Oct 2011
Reality

Dec 2009
Real Estate

Nov 2009

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