No Pain In Pop

Pack of Smokes

When I asked Matthew Mondanile - AKA the lime soda suppin’, sun seekin’ Ducktails - to tell me about one of the other bands he plays with, he was pretty keen to impress that Real Estate “is an extremely summer vibe band. We started in the summer.” Not a great deal surprising about that perhaps, given past form, but where Mondanile’s other projects seem driven half-mad and psyched to the point of heat delirium, Real Estate - whose tracks are written in the most part by fellow New Jerseyan Martin Courtney - seem to recline while the heat is fast fading from the day, the time come for T-shirts on and six packs to get cracked.

Longing yet? Winter Solstice in just over a week. Best check the golden slithers of guitar stretching and swooning across the soft grass of ‘Fake Blues’ and ‘Black Lake’ as they meander towards transcendental contentment. “Real Estate is a quartet,” Mondanile continues. “We have two guitars, bass and drums. It’s a ‘classic’ band. We play pop.”

Rudeboy keeps the conch after ‘the jump’.



MP3: Real Estate - Fake Blues



MP3: Real Estate - Black Lake

› Continue reading

Tags: martin courtney, matthew mondanile, real estate, summer vibe band