Matthew Mondanile, guitarist of underground American lo-fi band Real Estate, is the talent behind one-man side project Ducktails; uniting sounds from within the aesthetic genres of ‘glo-fi’, ‘shitgaze’, ‘chillwave’, (etc) and sparing music from textural clichés…
Real Estate
[Photos] Deerhunter w/Real Estate – Pier 54, NYC 12/08/10
As part of the series of free “River Rocks” out-door concerts held at Pier 54 in New York City, we sent our stateside photographer Cory Smith to shoot Deerhunter; prior to the release of their eagerly awaited new album Halycon Digest on 23 September.
[Photos] Real Estate – Le Poisson Rouge NYC 09/07/10
As impressive as Real Estate’s latest self-titled album is, it’s on the live stage that these loveable New Jersey rogues really come into their own. Opening up for Kurt Vile, they recently played a show at downtown NYC venue Le Poisson Rouge.
The Primavera Sound Diaries 2010
This time last week I was a sweaty mess of half wrecked excitement somewhere in the centre of Barcelona. Now I’m sitting with the sniffles alone in my bedroom trying to figure out how to consolidate one of the best festivals of my life into a word count below that of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The SXSW Diaries // Day 2
Good Morning from Austin, Texas. This morning is awesome because it’s the first morning, ever, in my history of attending SXSW that I don’t have the slightest hint of hangover.
Real Estate – Real Estate
Real Estate has made an album full of dusty, comfortable music that still somehow sounds new. The sound of the morning after a great night, and a thoroughly enjoyable debut from a band with surely more great music yet to come.
