Recorded 2008-2009 | Length 39:14 | |
Released November 17, 2009 (2009-11-17) Studio Rear House(Brooklyn, New York),Yeah Buddy HQ(Glen Rock, New Jersey)Various locations(The Heights, Jersey City)(Ridgewood, New Jersey) Genre Indie rockpsychedelic popsurf rocklo-fidream pop | ||
Real Estate is the debut album by American indie rock band Real Estate, released on November 17, 2009 (2009-11-17) on Woodsist.
Contents
Artwork
The artwork for the album comes from Italian architect Paolo Soleri's model for his 'Hexahedron City', from his 1969 book Arcology: The City in the Image of Man published by the MIT Press. The book details Soleri's architectural concept arcology, a vision of architectural design principles for very densely populated habitats.
Critical reception
Real Estate received largely positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 15 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Pitchfork Media labeled it "Best New Music".
Track listing
All songs written by Martin Courtney, except where noted.