>Watching the ‘Days’ fly by
By By Sean Reichard
Quick: are you chill? Relaxed? Affably lackadaisical? Then the band Real Estate may be for you.
An indie band from Ridgewood, New Jersey, Real Estate plays a brand of rock n’ roll that lolls and gently hums like the sound of waves on the Jersey shore. Drawing together surf rock and jangly guitar à la the Byrds and R.E.M., Real Estate manages to be soothing without being sleep inducing.
Real Estate returns with Days, an album that is both an extension and improvement of their sound. 2009’s Real Estate was by all measure a fine album, but sometimes so mellow that highlights and changes between songs were hard to distinguish. It was a low key affair.
Days flows along the same vibes, but is fuller and brighter than Real Estate. Keeping the laid-back atmosphere, Real Estate coasts through ten songs with just an added measure of punch. Opener “Easy” bursts like a flash of light, and “Municipality” features airy vocals wrapping around each other through a haze of guitar strums.
Suburbia is a recurring theme as well, with “Green Aisles” melding two oft-remarked suburban motifs: sterile grocery stores and cookie-cutter houses, as well as the aforementioned “Municipality.”
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