Comments on: Off the Beach: Real Estate @ Rock & Roll Hotel

By: dipped in dollars » Real Estate / Girls, Live @ The Black Cat

dipped in dollars » Real Estate / Girls, Live @ The Black Cat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:57:19 +0000

[...] sound that way. It’s just the way it is.” Check the rest of the interview with the City Paper, here. I’m tempted to say, well I’m just going to say it, these boys definitely outshined [...]

By: (Bonus) Clip Job: Five Acts I Loved at CMJ - Arts Desk - Washington City Paper

(Bonus) Clip Job: Five Acts I Loved at CMJ - Arts Desk - Washington City Paper — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:46:58 +0000

[...] Cake Shop: The inside-baseball joke at CMJ this year had something to do with a lot of bands—like Real Estate and the rest of the Underwater Peoples crew—really digging on the beach. Surfer Blood—a [...]

By: Jonathan L. Fischer

Jonathan L. Fischer — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:41:26 +0000

Hold up. How Courtney feels about labels -- by which I meant genres and subgenres -- and how I feel are two different things. And I'm referring to the sound of Real Estate's recorded material -- all eight or so songs of it -- using adjectives to which Courtney probably wouldn't object. Maybe I should've been clearer, but Courtney's point wasn't that he's frustrated by assumptions about his aesthetic -- more by assumptions about his aesthetic strategy. Which is to say: Yes, the current material is "tropical," "nostalgic-sounding," and all that. But it may not be next time.

By: DC resident

DC resident — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:37:06 +0000

And isn't it a "one-sentence narrative" to suggest that certain songs are "simply the result of a summer spent writing music by the ocean" rather than of creative agency and a lifetime of musical development?

By: DC resident

DC resident — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:32:56 +0000

Are you not labeling the group's aesthetic as being "nostalgic-sounding," "tropical," and "laid-back?"

By: Jonathan L. Fischer

Jonathan L. Fischer — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:26:35 +0000

As far as I can tell, those are neither narratives nor labels.

By: DC resident

DC resident — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:22:31 +0000

"Seeing his band boiled down to one-sentence narratives and minute-old labels 'can be frustrating,' Courtney says. 'You cringe a little bit.'" ahem... "the band’s tropical, laid-back vibe" "nostalgic-sounding" Nice that you reproduce these very narratives, Jonathan.

By: Quick Roundup « katelexy

Quick Roundup « katelexy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:39:14 +0000

[...] http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2009/10/19/off-the-beach-real-estate-rock-ro...Six months after its first gig, Real Estate—which plays at the Rock & Roll Hotel tonight with Japandroids and Neon Indian—was generating buzz at the South by Southwest festival in Austin and tickling the blogosphere with woozy, … [...]