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Even if you only paid moderate attention to indie music last year, it'd still be painfully obvious that lo-fi continued to surge as a go-to aesthetic for many new artists. I suppose that shouldn't ... Lees meer

Onlangs aangespoeld in Oostende, en er meteen ook een concert gespeeld om in te lijsten: Real Estate, een bedeesd viertal uit New Jersey dat hun gelijknamige debuut vorig jaar terecht in allerlei e... Lees meer

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I really only had one friend, a fellow transplant, and we used to go out together every Saturday night. We’d go to a little run down bar – it had bee... Lees meer

The enduring relationship between indie rock and suburban ennui is a tricky affair. Though the latter is perhaps the single deepest inspirational source from which indie rock springs, the de facto ... Lees meer

Recorded in chief songwriter Martin Courtney's apartment last Spring, "Motorbikes" features just one set of vocals: those of birds singing outside. Their pipes line the instrumental opening track o... Lees meer

During the summer, the shadows are long, shirts are optional, tan lines read like tiny memoirs and BBQs are the de rigueur social mixers. The season’s hazy ennui is the aesthetic choice for t... Lees meer

Martin Courtney's Real Estate is the latest in a string ofsoft-focus, lo-fi bands that filter the late 00s fascination with fuzz througha bucolic lens. Like Woods and Ganglians, Real Estate aims fo... Lees meer

As 2009 wound down, we were starting to see a wave of new artists who’d already made their mark in the music blogosphere. With hopes of receiving a smudge of recognition, it makes sense to re... Lees meer

Der findes sommerplader, og så findes der goddamn sommerplader. Amerikanske Real Estates selvbetitlede debut hører til sidstnævnte kategori. Vi snakker stille og rolig guitar-poprock, der er mikset... Lees meer

2009 har været et fortræffeligt år for det amerikanske pladeselskab Woodsist. Wavves, Woods, Sun Araw og Kurt Vile er nogle af de artister, som i løbet af de seneste 12 måneder har udgivet plader d... Lees meer