“On the Phantom Brooding/Gratitude Continuum in Real Estate and its Historical Torque”

Jayson Greene’s review of Atlas, the new Real Estate album, transposes several traits onto the aural canvas that are not explicit. First, he ascribes Real Estate frontman Martin Courtney with a “cosmic gratitude,” this derived simply from the lines of “Had to Hear,” the album’s opener: “I don’t need the horizon / To tell me … Continue reading “On the Phantom Brooding/Gratitude Continuum in Real Estate and its Historical Torque”