Real Estate - Days

Out Tuesday

I don't know if I like the first Real Estate album. I can't remember it, to tell you the truth. And I know I've listened to it in the past month. I know I don't not like it. It's fine, still on my iPod.

Days, is a totally different story. Every time my attention drifts away, I get brought back in by something that sounds damn near perfect within its context. This is where I need to put a beach metaphor. Whether it's the floating green bottle (the melody) or its message for a castaway sweetheart (the lyrics), the bobbing and shifting discoball sea (the music) eventually delivers it to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (my brain). I especially dig the way the keyboard solo on "It's Real" pops out like a Magic Eye. "Green Aisles" is late nineties. I'm not completely sold on that one, it seems like it's drinking too much of the yesterday juice.

 It's Real
 Green Aisles