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Feb 22, 2024This is Real Estate at their best, giving us the same bright and bittersweet indie perfection as always, only better with age and experience.
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Feb 27, 2024Real Estate emerged as a band renewed, the palpable unity in these performances amplifying their sense of purpose. A Springtime joy.
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Feb 21, 2024Real Estate seamlessly ties in the esoteric with the relatable, landing on a short but powerful LP that simply asks you to question everything without demanding an immediate answer.
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MojoFeb 20, 2024Daniel conveys an expert melancholy. its ups always just on the brink of an elegant down. [Mar 2024, p.88]
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UncutFeb 20, 2024There is a hint of Nashville in the production, a dash of steel guitar, but the main symptom is the clarity of the sound. It dares to be understated, pushing Real Estate's artful ambivalence into the light. [Feb 2024, p.35]
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Feb 20, 2024The back half loses steam a little, but even mediocre RE is well-written and easy to enjoy. Victoria is an Alex Bleeker-led song with a bit of pedal steel twang, Airdrop throws in some synth and Freeze Brain has bongos for some reason. But these little affectations rarely distract from the uniformly gorgeous arrangements.
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Feb 23, 2024If anything, the group has gotten better at keeping the subtlety of their music, and their lyrical sentiments, from straying over the line into dull.
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Feb 20, 2024Daniel delivers the twofold triumphs of, first, delivering satisfactorily upon the band’s original talent for hooks and vibe, and second, demonstrating enough variety to suggest that Real Estate doesn’t intend to forever languish in their comfort zone to diminishing returns. I’ll take it.
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Feb 28, 2024There’s no disco excursion on Daniel—they already pulled off that trick on 2020’s The Main Thing—but it’s the cleanest and leanest album they’ve ever made.
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Feb 22, 2024Ultimately, Daniel is perfectly pleasant.
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Feb 21, 2024For those to whom Courtney’s songwriting is a soothing balm, there is plenty to like here - but there’s a sense of creative inertia that means it’s a difficult record to truly love.
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Feb 21, 2024Daniel shows potential for Real Estate to take their music to the next level and in a way, that’s both its biggest plus and greatest minus.
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Feb 28, 2024Daniel’s “brand-new old-fashioned” version of Real Estate is totally workable but is also a reminder that the old-fashioned stuff was better.
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