Boards
the latest real estate album 'atlas'
Nice enough, but they've pulled the old trick of abandoning reverb in favour of clean-sounding, tight music.
The first one is brilliant with Snow Days and Green River etc. The second one is very good. I just can't see myself listening to Atlas again having heard it twice. Sure it's nice, but there's no edge.
The abandoning of reverb seems to have happened to all my favourite US indie bands from the late 00s. :'(