Real Estate – Atlas (New Vinyl)

NEW LP

New sealed copy. 180 gram heavyweight vinyl. Gatefold debossed jacket.

Atlas is the third studio album by the American indie rock band Real Estate, released on March 4, 2014, on Domino Records. It was their first album recorded with the drummer Jackson Pollis and keyboard player Matt Kallman, and the last with the lead guitarist and founding member Matt Mondanile.

After touring for the album Days was finished, in late 2012 Real Estate took a break. While guitarist Mondanile and bass guitarist Alex Bleeker worked on their respective solo projects, lead singer and guitarist Martin Courtney married and was busy writing songs, which was something that he had started while touring. The band then spent winter and spring working on songs, taking up a total of eight to nine months on songwriting before recording commenced. In mid-2012 and throughout 2013, the band featured new material in their shows.

A friend of Real Estate suggested the album be produced by Jim O'Rourke, n idea which intrigued the band since they were fans of his work on Wilco's seminal album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and felt that his production style would fit with the "clean record" that they wanted to make. As the band was certain that working together would be unlikely given O'Rourke's enigmatic nature, their label proposed working with Tom Schick instead. Schick had co-produced Wilco's most recent album, The Whole Love, and was also the house engineer at The Loft, Wilco's studio in Chicago, Illinois. Since Wilco would be on tour, they gave Real Estate permission to record at the studio and use their gear, the first time for any band without Wilco's presence.

The album was recognized as one of The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far by Pitchfork in August 2014.

TRACKLIST:

A1 Had To Hear
A2 Past Lives
A3 Talking Backwards
A4 April´s Song
A5 The Bend
B1 Crime
B2 Primitive
B3 How Might I Live
B4 Horizon
B5 Navigator