REAL ESTATE - Reality 12" RARE ONLY 1,000 Copies
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Artist: REAL ESTATE Album Title: REALITY - 12" EP Record Label: MEXICAN SUMMER Limited Edition: #'d 651/1,000 Released: January 2010
- Real Estate is one of the hottest new band's out there. - Mexican Summer is one of the best new labels around. Their releases are always limited and sell out before they can even make it to the record store. - This is one of the most sought after records that they have released so far. - Get yours before the prices on this release go through the roof - because believe me: THEY WILL!!!
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What people are saying about Real Estate & their new release "Reality"
Mexican Summer Description: New Jersey’s Real Estate has successfully captured the sound of a late Sunday afternoon, in the dreaded hours before work or school claims your life again. The band’s sweet, loose pop ballads recall a modern-day Everly Brothers, drifting and dreamlike, as their tales of suburban indifference and insecurity mask your own fears. Six new songs, and not a moment too soon.
Pitchfork Review:
Recorded in chief songwriter Martin Courtney's apartment last Spring, "Motorbikes" features just one set of vocals: those of birds singing outside. Their pipes line the instrumental opening track of Real Estate's Reality EP, a quick end-of-year release that's assumed physical form just one month after the New Jersey foursome released their first (and equally loose) full-length. Weird then that a band known for taking its sweet time on tape seems to have rushed to share even more. But according to Courtney, the Reality EP is more a step toward starting 2010 fresh-- delivering songs either written or recorded too late to be included on their LP.
Not surprisingly, not a lot separates the two releases sonically. If anything, Courtney's songwriting has relaxed even further. "Motorbikes" is anchored by Alex Bleeker's strolling bass line, while Matt Mondanile and Courtney's guitars are still plenty submerged. The racket from the titular motorcycles buzzsawing through the airspace outside the apartment that day never harshes the mellow. It's a moment that successfully bottles up the porch-swinging splendor of Real Estate's tie-dyed indie rock. But, notably, "Motorbikes" is the only track here on which all the band's members play together. With the added exception of "Saturday Morning" and Etienne Duguay's drumwork on highlight/closer "Dumb Luck", the rest of the RealityEP is the sound of Courtney working alone-- writing, recording, playing every instrument himself, harmonizing, jaaaaamming.
Real Estate songs are often mood pieces, and this set sounds much more the product of a melancholy young man ruminating on his own than any group trip to the beach. On "Basement", Courtney stretches his guitars over shakers, letting them yawn and sigh to sweet effect. It's become a live staple and for good reason: Despite the lyrical tug inwards, its structure and melody are wide open. The same can't be said for "Drum", a circular, minor-key ramble that's languid enough to sound positively clenched at times. The Mondanile-penned "Saturday Morning" is distinctly his own: a phaser pedal-ed paean to simple pleasures that in a way is spiritual kin to Girls' Christopher Owens' lyrical prism. Just without words. And as is the case in his Ducktails work, Mondanile's guitar licks here are at once misty and syrupy, a curtain of repeating textures that often sound like harp more than a Fender. Though it sounds and feels very much like the brainlight of another guy at the wheel, it fits. Real Estate may be Courtney's vehicle, but his bandmates speak a similar language.
— David Bevan , January 13, 2010
Insound's Review: Real Estate's Martin Courtney (songwriter, vocals, guitar), Alex Beeker (bass) and Matthew Mondanile (guitar; also of Ducktails and Predator Vision) all hail from suburban New Jersey and their songs evoke the soft bliss of giving your formative, teenage years enough time to waste and beer upon which to glug. Joined now by suburban Massachusetts' Etienne Duguay on drums, the fact that Real Estate only ever sound like a gaggle of grown-up teenage pals is testament to the ease of carving out your own niche in a town that's the same as countless others across America.Shipping Cost for USA - $4.00 I will ship worldwide (except for Italy) - Please send me a message if you are an international bidder so I can quote a shipping price. Insurance Available, but optional (the rate will depend on the sell value of the item) Payment must be received no later than 5 days after the end of the auction. No refunds or returns. Please send me a message if you have any questions at all.
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