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Mar 13, 2017nge. Lesser bands may have gone off the rails, but Courtney and company have responded by making the best album of their career to date.
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Mar 7, 2017Unlike many acts that seem to get lost and lack any creativity once they're several albums in, Real Estate have arguably produced their best record to date.
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Mar 22, 2017From the fuzzy way-wah bridge of Serve the Song to the soft and gentle swing of Holding Patterns, the band is taking great strides in diversifying their musical palette even if it primarily coalesces and not expands on their established personalities.
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Mar 21, 2017The pleasure they provide is difficult to dismiss; there’s so much life in these new songs, formula or not.
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Mar 16, 2017For the most part, this is an album that maintains Real Estate’s status as indie’s model of consistency.
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Mar 16, 2017Rarely have a band so perfectly captured the nonchalant thrill of being beautifully stuck in their groove.
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Mar 16, 2017Ultimately, there is a familiarity to In Mind which for some may seem a little too much of the same from this now 'veteran' band, but as with every Real Estate record, their collective ears for little surprising turns and touches in amongst their overall pleasing sound, is still impressive, eight years on.
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Mar 16, 2017Courtney remains remarkably gifted at pinpointing that particular feeling of wrestling with adulthood and responsibility while still feeling like a kid. And he does much of it through a sense of place.
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Mar 16, 2017Along with producer Cole M.G.N. (Beck, Julia Holter), Real Estate seems to both fine-tune and expand an already identifiable sound on In Mind, with engaging and often beautiful results.
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Mar 13, 2017Real Estate show that this is a band you can rely on in uncertain times; that’s as good a reason as any to stick around a while yet.
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MojoMar 7, 2017In Mind is an altogether lovely album that quietly demand to be heard. [Apr 2017, p.91]
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Mar 7, 2017Both songs [Stained Glass and Same Sun] lack that extra dynamic, and instead plod along in somewhat tepid one-dimensionality. Somehow, though, that doesn’t break the dreamy, wistful spell of the album as a whole.
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Mar 15, 2017In Mind, then, is an album caught in a moment of transition, perched halfway between reinvention and diminishing returns. Album number five will prove which side holds sway.
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MagnetApr 14, 2017[An] effortless fourth album, which is every bit as blissfully pretty and/or unremittingly milquetoast as what came before. [No. 141, p.61]
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Mar 20, 2017Real Estate remains precise and consistent, and they retain their impeccable ear for melody.
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Mar 14, 2017This is a band cruising in their own lane, the road smooth as Teflon.
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Mar 21, 2017Unlike the effortless Atlas, In Mind exposes a trace of tension between form and content. For all Courtney’s synchronicity with his home environment, he sometimes sounds like he’s spinning his wheels rather than exploring the new contours of the recalibrated band.
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Mar 28, 2017If your life needs to be stripped of its bombast for a little while, Real Estate remain a steadfast companion for a little R&R. Just don’t beat yourself up if you can’t sit through the whole thing.
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Mar 16, 2017In Mind, for all its charms and willingness to explore, mostly opts to bask in the lingering afterglow of Real Estate’s first truly outstanding record.
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UncutMar 7, 2017Their gem-like guitar pop songs start meandering a little. Altogether, though, In Mind feels like a collective exhale. [Apr 2017, p.37]
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Positive: 27 out of 34
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Mixed: 4 out of 34
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Negative: 3 out of 34
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