>Hazy Days
Real Estate’s Alex Bleeker talks about the new record, day jobs and high school bands
BY DAN BOLLES [01.11.12]
Last year, New Jersey’s Real Estate followed up their stirring self-titled debut album with Days, a release widely acknowledged as one of the year’s finest by music scribes across the country — including those at Pitchfork, which rated the breezy indie rock record among its top ten albums of 2011. That first record conjured sepia-toned images of sun-dappled seaside days and childhood innocence. Similarly, Real Estate’s latest, full of nostalgia for growing up in an American suburb, feels like the musical equivalent of a faded Polaroid.
