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9.0
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PopMatters
Real Estate have overcome the critics and released one of the most refreshing, satisfying and richly rewarding albums of 2009
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8.5
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8.5 |
Pitchfork
Real Estate share tones with North Jersey indie rock titans Yo La Tengo and the Feelies, pouring those influences through warm impressions of oldies radio
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8.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Real Estate might not be the best classicist-leaning pop record of the year... but it certainly is the most confident, the most assured, and the most unassuming
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8.0
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Uncut
Print edition only
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7.8
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7.8 |
Beats Per Minute
The four have been playing together since high school, and the songs on their self-titled album have been slowly brewing and put out in various forms for more than a year
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7.5
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The Line Of Best Fit
An album full of dusty, comfortable music that still somehow sounds new ... a thoroughly enjoyable debut from a band with surely more great music yet to come
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7.0
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Blurt
Six of ten songs on this debut album reference various swimming venues - beaches, pools, rivers and lakes. But more remarkably, the sound itself has a watery sheen
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7.0
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7.0 |
No Ripcord
These ten songs are immaculately composed, proving that besides holding a pop motif that isn’t really revelatory, there’s enough variation to satisfy a few repeated listens
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
Real Estate play lush, ambient surf rock that re-imagines the Beach Boys' "Kokomo" as a Yo La Tengo dronefest
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