Real Estate
Real Estate helped usher in a warm, hazy style of indie rock that came into prominence in the late 2000s and continue to ply a similar sound, though with a more mature outlook. The band's breezy melodies, jangly guitars, relaxed vocals, and generally laid-back approach to songcraft hid musical complexities on standout albums like 2014's Atlas. As the years went on, their original lineup splintered and new songs explored getting older, parenthood, and a new wealth of topics, still delivered in the band's reserved, mellow style on albums released in the 2020s like The Main Thing and Daniel. In 2025, the band collected 14 years' worth of B-sides and non-album tracks on their compilation release The Wee Small Hours.Real Estate was formed in Ridgewood by lead singer/guitarist Martin Courtney (Predator Vision and formerly Titus Andronicus), guitarist Matthew Mondanile (Ducktails), bassist Alex Bleeker (Alex Bleeker & the Freaks), and drummer Etienne Duguay (Predator Vision). The foursome had played together -- including in a Weezer cover band -- during high school, but didn't become Real Estate until Courtney returned to the Garden State after attending college in Olympia, Washington. After forming in the summer of 2008, the band began playing live that fall and released the "Suburban Beverage" 7", which introduced Real Estate's brand of surfy, lo-fi pop, early in 2009. A song on the Underwater Peoples Records Showcase and the Fake Blues EP appeared that summer. The band spent the fall touring with Girls before their self-titled debut was released by Woodsist. The quartet joined the Domino Records roster in 2011 for its sophomore effort, Days, which hit the shelves and the Billboard charts in the rock, alternative, independent, and vinyl albums categories. It reached number 52 on the Billboard 200. Shortly following its release, the band went through a lineup change with Duguay dropping out; he was replaced by drummer Jackson Pollis. The group was also joined at that point by auxiliary member Jonah Maurer on keyboards and additional guitars. This new assemblage of Real Estate toured feverishly for the well-received Days, though by their return in 2014 with third album Atlas, Maurer had been replaced by Matt Kallman. That LP went on to rank higher on all the same charts, landing in the Billboard 200's Top 40. Following a short break for other projects, including Courtney's solo debut, in May of 2016 Real Estate announced that Mondanile was leaving the band to focus on Ducktails. He was replaced by Julian Lynch, and the quintet of Courtney, Bleeker, Pollis, Kallman, and Lynch released In Mind in March 2017. Three years later they returned with their fifth studio album The Main Thing, which explored themes of growing up mixed with a healthy fear of an oncoming apocalypse. The Main Thing was preceded by the first single "Paper Cup," which featured guest vocals from Amelia Meath of Sylvan Esso. Pollis left the band in 2020 and the next year the Half a Human EP compiled material that the band had begun recording during the sessions for The Main Thing and finished later. Drummer Sammi Niss stepped in to replace Pollis, and this lineup of Real Estate recorded their sixth studio album Daniel. The album was released in February of 2024. In May of 2025, the band released The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides and Other Detritus 2011 - 2025, a compilation that spanned 14 years of non-album tracks and other various rarities.
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The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides and Other Detritus 2011-2025
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 02/05/2025
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Atlas
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 03/03/2014
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Daniel
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 23/02/2024
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The Main Thing
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 28/02/2020
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In Mind
Indie Pop - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 17/03/2017
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Darling
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 24/01/2017
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Half a Human
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 26/03/2021
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Water Underground
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 27/11/2023
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Daniel
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 24/09/2024
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Days
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 19/10/2021
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Pink Sky
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 01/05/2025
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Paper Cup
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 15/01/2020
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Flowers
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 20/02/2024
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Stained Glass
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 07/03/2017
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Haunted World
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 18/01/2024
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Days
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 17/10/2011
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It's Real
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 12/08/2011
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Talking Backwards
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 16/01/2014
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Reality
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Real Estate The Band em 14/01/2013
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Paper Cup
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 15/01/2020
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Talking Backwards
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Domino Recording Co em 14/01/2014
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