Description
Label Review.
2020 album also available on Vinyl.
Our Overview.
Over the last decade, New Jersey band the Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specialising in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. The bands fifth studio album ’The Main Thing’ dives even further into the musical dichotomies they’re known for—lilting, bright guitar lines set against emotionally nuanced lyrics, complex arrangements conveyed breezily— and what emerges is a superlative collection of interrogative songs as full of depth, strangeness and contradictions as they are lifting hooks. ‘The Main Thing’, delivers the band’s most inspired and self-aware set of songs to date, created over the course of a year at upstate New York’s Marcata Sound.
Following his work on 2011’s Days, engineer Kevin McMahon returns as producer and, for the first time ever, Real Estate have brought in outside instrumentalists and special guests like Sylvan Esso, whose vocalist Amelia Meath features on ‘Paper Cup’.Across the album’s 13 interrogative tracks - as full of depth, strangeness, and contradictions as they are lifting hooks - the band balances existential, environmental and political anxieties with fatherly sentiments, self-satirising lyrics, forever-lively guitar lines and shimmering strings.
Tracklisting: Friday / Paper Cup (ft Sylvan Esso) / Gone / You / November / Falling Down / Also A But / The Main Thing / Shallow Sun / Sting / Silent World / Procession / Brother