event Real Estate
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Andrew Cedermark
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Fri Nov 27
10 pm,
Real Estate at Mohawk
One of the more pleasing trends in supposedly trendy music this year has been the rise of lo-fi artists who avoid the sonically debased fuzz of Times New Viking, and instead submerge their pop in more dynamic, warm swirls of reverb and open space. Like their Madison-based pal Julian Lynch, New Jersey's Real Estate takes advantage of the breathing room this approach offers for both musicianship and emotional impact. Its self-titled debut LP was unfortunately slapped with the asinine "chillwave" genre tag (which began as a joke anyway), but its songs search around as much as they soothe, using glittery guitars and spacey noise in the service of melody instead of just drowning it in sloppy texture.
Mohawk 912 Red River St, Austin, TX
One of the more pleasing trends in supposedly trendy music this year has been the rise of lo-fi artists who avoid the sonically debased fuzz of Times New Viking, and instead submerge their pop in more dynamic, warm swirls of reverb and open space. Like their Madison-based pal Julian Lynch, New Jersey's Real Estate takes advantage of the breathing room this approach offers for both musicianship and emotional impact. Its self-titled debut LP was unfortunately slapped with the asinine "chillwave" genre tag (which began as a joke anyway), but its songs search around as much as they soothe, using glittery guitars and spacey noise in the service of melody instead of just drowning it in sloppy texture.
Updated 11/17/2009
