Subscribe RSSSome albums are so plain-spoken you can practically hear their back stories. Real Estate’s 2009 self-titled debut was like that: a compact disc so effortless and unassuming, it’s a wonder it was ever released for public consumption.
“Real Estate’’ was eminently listenable. The elementary interplay among Matthew Mondanile’s guitar, Alex Bleeker’s bass, and Martin Courtney’s vocals and guitar suggested they were in no accelerate. Their chemistry, culled from years playing as friends who grew up together in New Jersey, seeped into the songs. For music that sounded so easy, it was awfully hard to get it out of your head.
“Half of that album had been recorded with nothing specific in mind,’’ Bleeker says recently forwards of Real Estate’s sold-out show tomorrow night at Brighton Music Hall. “It’s maybe not as cohesive as the aide-de-camp one, where we went into the studio with a certain period of time in mind to make it, but each record reflects where we are at a specific call in time.’’
