1. Real Estate

Real Estate - Days
>Psychpop / Indierock

An amazing follow up album to their self titled. Where their first was more sunny feeling and had songs about pools and sun, Days is a tad darker with songs about fall, leaves, and night. Someone related it to me as their self titled is the soundtrack of the drive to the beach, while Days is the drive home. A cleaner sounding album, with more emotion in the lyrics. Alex Bleeker sings on a track too, and like Cut Copy & The Horrors, it has an epic, lenghty closing track. They added a fifth member who plays the keyboard and it's subtly hidden in the back of tracks. I didn't even notice it the first few times I listened. Such a chill album, really. Best of the year, in my opinion. If you don't like, whatever. Hope you found at least something that you did. Cheers.

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