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It doesn’t take much for me to climb on board for new music from Real Estate. The formula doesn’t change much over time in the band’s sound, but things somehow remain interesting. Therefore it is with great pleasure that I have not one, but two relatively recent pieces of new music from the New Jersey based outfit. The first, entitled “It’s Real,” is a single released in anticipation of their forthcoming follow-up record. Continuing in the vein of their beautifully crafted pop moments, the song is familiar musically but things move in a new direction vocals-wise, with a chorus filled of soft woah’s.
[mp3] Real Estate // It’s Real
For me, the aspect of their tried principle that is most instrumental in my repeat revisits, is the chime-like guitar work. Real Estate tried their hand at “Barely Legal,” a Strokes cover from the Stereogum tribute, and succeeded in making it quite definitively their own. The song is recognizable as the cover it is, but only once the vocals start in reciting those familiar lyrics over the familiar guitar sounds. Were it not for the words and the intonation, this could quite easily be a Real Estate track. I won’t say that is the best type of cover song, when a band fits another’s work into their own style, but in certain circumstances such as this, it is certainly welcome.
[mp3] Real Estate // Barely Legal
Written on
November 26, 2010 by
Andy in
Music
![Dead Trees iTunesCover RESIZE [mp3] The Dead Trees Back To L.A.](http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Dead_Trees_iTunesCover_RESIZE.jpg "[mp3] The Dead Trees Back To L.A.")
After forming in 2007, Boston’s The Dead Trees had the good fortune of having their debut EP get into the hands of Albert Hammond Jr. – who you may know in one of the following ways: guitarist for The Strokes/son of Albert Hammond/solo musician. Hammond Jr. brought the band along with him on two separate tours, after which the band spent time opening and playing with Little Joy, as well as playing with the likes of MGMT and The Whigs. Their debut full-length was released in 2008.
The band is prepping their new album right now – tentatively titled What Wave – for release in the new year, which they funded through donations on Kickstarter. In the meantime, they just put out a Strokes-tinged 7″ single on White Iris Records, the A-Side of which is the homesick “Back to L.A.” It’s my first introduction to the band, and I like what I’m hearing on this.
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The Dead Trees – Back to L.A. (mp3) from Back To L.A. 7″
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Were Andy and I to forced to select a blog similar in style to our own, a choice we could possibly make is Listen Before You Buy. I say this because I heard today’s song over there, and despite our so called similarities, we certainly don’t have the exact same tastes in music. So it is with a grain of salt that I am posting about today’s hilarious entry into the annals of awkward covers, dissecting a song recently written about on the aforementioned similar blog.
Covering The Strokes’ “Take It Or Leave It,” is the Japanese quartet The Suzan. I don’t find the track quite so entertaining, as far as enjoyment on any discernible level goes. Sure the ladies’ inability to pronounce certain words in a foreign tongue is amusing, but that’s a bit snarky, and certainly not enough to allow me to enjoy the song. The saccharine sweet synths and jittery drum beats serve to highlight the awful vocals, leaving something that is all just too laughable to take seriously. Sorry, but this is terrible.
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The Suzan – Take It Or Leave It (The Strokes Cover) (mp3)
I’m not feeling particularly long-winded today, so let’s jump right in to the next installment of my 1000 Minutes Project, which, if you’re unfamiliar, can be recapped here. If you’re up-to-speed, read on:
89. The Strokes – Someday (mp3) from Is This It
(3:07) [Time Remaining: 581:41]
When The Strokes’ seminal Is This It was released, I was a bit of a latecomer. That’s not to say that I hadn’t heard what they were doing; it was more that I simply didn’t find “Hard to Explain” and “Last Nite” all that gripping. (Apparently I’m not easily impressed by hype.) And then I heard “Someday” and caved instantly, purchasing the album as quickly as I could. Looking back and listening now, all the songs seem to have ended up on fairly equal footing, but “Someday” still makes it onto party playlists because of my particular affinity for it.
90. The Walkmen – In the New Year (mp3) from You & Me
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I’m not a big fan of The Walkmen; You & Me was my introduction to their music. Despite my lack of familiarity with the rest of their catalog, “In the New Year” has stuck in my head since the first time I heard it. The song is honest and hopeful about the process of getting older, falling in and out of love, and watching your friends experience the same. In short, it’s honest about life for me lately, and it’s (surprisingly) not wholly uncomfortable.
Written on
November 27, 2009 by
Dave in
Music
Like Andy mentioned, we are close to beginning our year-end lists so we are desisting with our 1K’s and other regularly scheduled programming for a bit. This will be my last edition until the new year. If you have no clue what I am speaking of, here is what I have done so far.
77. The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup (mp3) from The Very Best Of The Foundations
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This is just a happy (sounding) song with some fairly sad lyrics that I can always sing along with. I think someone told me about, or forced me to listen to, some cover of this song but I don’t believe it’s possible to top this.
78. The Strokes – New York City Cops (mp3) from Is This It?
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This song and album started getting big during my sophomore year of college. I was using audiogalaxy as the program of choice for my downloads and I got this album as it was originally intended. This particular song was attached to the effort along with some supposedly too-sexy album art. Then terrorists decided to attack NYC and the group denigrated in this song were forced to become heroes and a national rallying point behind the horror. Naturally, another song was added to replace this song on the U.S. release, as it should have been. But it’s too bad about the timing, because this is my favorite off the record.
