★★★★★
Domino The most amazing thing about the band Real Estate is how they are able to find beauty and experimental adventure within the margins of the upper middle class dystopia that is Northern New Jersey. Bergen County, to be exact, perhaps one of the most congested, aggressive and gluttonous commercial areas of the East Coast...
- www.jambands.com
2014-05-29
★★★★★
Greetings from Bergen County, New Jersey... A ravishing third album from jangling romantics... Back in the 1980s, there were plenty of attempts, not all of them complimentary, to name the indie-pop scene that emerged out of post-punk. One tag that stuck around for a while was "shambling", crystallising the assumption that this was music made by wimps, for wimps; privileging a kind of low-fidelity incompetence to define itself against mainstream slickness...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2014-05-02
★★★★★
First of all: I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you had to read the words Real Estate and Mac DeMarco in the same headline. I'm sorry that your laptop or tablet or whatever started combusting in protest from the amount of breezy indie rock it was being asked to inhale. And I'm sorry that these are my two favourite records of the year. Should I feel bad? Probably not, but I do. I feel bad that I've over-listened to them. Who plays a Real Estate record in excess of a hundred times...
- cokemachineglow.com
2014-04-25
★★★★★
It's hard to tell if the decision to record Atlas in Wilco's Chicago studio influenced the sound of the album or if the location was chosen to match the sound. Either way, Real Estate's third record marks a change in tone for the New Jersey indie rockers. Where Days and 2009's self-titled record relied upon a certain light whimsy there's now a veneer of self-doubt that's crept in to the suburban sound they've helped create...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2014-04-01
★★★★★
Real Estate's second album,2011's Days, helped the NewJersey five-piece blossom froma cult concern into a bandwith serious crossoverpotential. The spiritual sonsof IRS-period REM andPavement, their combinationof nimble, intricate guitarinterplay and concise,understated songs set themapart from the pack.
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-03-27
★★★★★
Release Date: March 4, 2014 It's just about that time of the year when the long, bleak, dark days of the winter are finally fading away and the sun is fighting to break through. It's that time when the temperatures are mild, the summer is coming and hazy festival days are becoming more and more of an oncoming reality. Therefore, its the perfect time for a Real Estate album. The Brooklyn foursome have returned with Atlas, the follow up to 2011's breakthrough success, Days...
- absolutepunk.net
2014-03-15
★★★★★
The sound of Real Estate can be described as cruising through American suburbia, blissed out and sun-kissed. Driving down any road, but one which is paved with anxiety, lost love and self doubt. On Atlas, their dewy-eyed nostalgia and memories of halcyon days, not to mention painful reminders of life and love, are all evident.
The third album from the indie-rock / jangle-pop New Jersey group opens with 'Had To Hear'...
- www.state.ie
2014-03-06
★★★★★
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Release Date: March 4, 2014Label: Domino
On the one hand, Real Estate are annoying. I'm saying this to hurt their feelings; their music could use a little hurt. One of the most inoffensive rock bands of all time, their name halves another outfit's far more stinging one (Sunny Day Real Estate), while their music is the Feelies minus the crazy rhythms, all velvet and no underground...
- www.spin.com
2014-03-07
★★★★★
New Jersey has a rich history of accomplished storytellers. A typical Bruce Springsteen lyric sheet could cover the height of the floor to the ceiling in your parents' childhood bedrooms. More recently, bands such as the Front Bottoms have made names for themselves by loading their songs with hyper-personal suburban angst, while Titus Andronicus have packed enough historical and literary references into their albums to put a smile on any mosh pit-frequenting English major's face...
- www.cmj.com
2014-03-06
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