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The Dartmouth
April 25, 2024 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Justin Burris
Real Estate's second full-length release,
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New Real Estate album evokes sleepy suburbs

Courtesy of Feelguide.com By Justin Burris "Days," the follow-up to Real Estate's 2009 eponymous debut, should have a subtitle "songs for private moments on the New Jersey Turnpike." Though laminated with higher production values and crisper notes, the hypnotic melodies and naive positivity of each of the 10 songs on the album are unmistakably derived from hazy American surf rock. Throughout the album, airy vocals wax and wane, transporting the listener into a narcotic lull as each note is woven into a dream-like whole.

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