“The Brooklyn-via-New Jersey band’s sixth album shows traces of kaleidoscopic optimism.”
“The indie pop veterans’ sixth album fuses the laid-back sound of 1990s soft rock with pedal steel and countrypolitan filigree. It’s lean, clean—and a little sleepy.”
“Since their inception, Real Estate have embraced their identity (or, as they’ve described it in the past, their “non-identity”) as a bunch of average kids who honed their skills in their parents’ basements in Ridgewood, New Jersey, just killing time in upper-middle class white suburbia. Now that the band — whose signature, suburban-slacker sound rests in the annals of 2010s indie rock — have been”
“Daniel emphasises Real Estates' nostalgia”
“Real Estate have a comforting kind of sound. It has persisted throughout their career, and their new album is no exception. Lead single ‘Water Underground’ carries over the spirit of fun that was there in 2011’s ‘It’s Real’, the hit that catapulted them into worldwide indie prominence, to which I listened on vinyl again and again when it was released. 13 years on from that “uplifting tale of youth”
