Real Estate

Add Date: October 25 

Artist: Real Estate 

Album: Days 

Label: Domino 

Genre: Rock 

Comments: In labeling Real Estate's new LP "a guitar-pop masterwork", here's what The A.V. Club had to say: "The New Jersey indie-pop outfit fashioned Days in the form of the Beach Boys' Today, the Byrds' Notorious Byrd Brothers, and The Shins' Oh, Inverted World--all perfect autumnal guitar-pop records that radiate inarticulate loveliness and deep, coming-of-age melancholy. Real Estate set itself up to falter by comparison, but Days pulls off the impressive feat of earning that company."

Needless to say, that's extremely high praise for a band that's just two records into its career. However, it's certainly well-deserved. Real Estate's eponymous 2009 debut was a fantastic collection of hazy, surf-rock-inspired guitar pop, which fit perfectly into the Woodsist collective; jumping to Domino for the follow-up was an indication that the band was ready to polish off its sound, and that measure is achieved with resounding success on Days.

Mixing the sounds of '60s and '70s pop and psychedelia, '80s alternative and shoegaze, and '90s and '00s indie, Real Estate is one of the rare bands that have a truly timeless sound. You'll quickly find yourself wanting to listen to Days over and over in its entirety, but start with tracks 3, 5, 1 and 2.