Real Estate

In Mind

DOMINO. CD/DL/LP

Gorgeous sun-dappled indie melodies from New York via California. Having lost founding member/guitarist Matt Mondanile in 2015 (to concentrate on his other band Ducktails), Real Estate regrouped with his replacement Julian Lynch in a rehearsal studio housed in a former high school in Beacon, upstate New York, before recording in LA with Beck and Julia Holter producer Cole M.G.N. The result is a refocusing of their gentle, hazy guitar pop, with Lynch adding grit to the trippy Serve The Song. Frontman Martin Courtney’s lullaby-like vocals add a mesmerising quality to the Big Star-via-Teenage Fanclub echo of Two Arrows, which stretches out to sixminutes-plus, while the beautifully drifty waltz After The Moon is reverie inducing stuff. Though Real Estate are not a band to holler for attention, In Mind is an altogether lovely album that quietly demands to be heard.