Real Estate announce UK and European tour dates
21st January 2020
Last week Real Estate announced their fifth album The Main Thing – due February 28th – alongside new single “Paper Cup”. “Paper Cup” features Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath on vocals and marks the first time Real Estate have ever brought in special guests; the single also came with a great video featuring a giant animatronic squirrel.
Now, the band are pleased to confirm UK and European tour dates for June including London’s Roundhouse.
The Main Thing delivers the band’s most inspired and self-aware set of songs to date, created over the course of a year at upstate New York’s Marcata Sound with producer Kevin McMahon (who engineered 2011’s Days). Across the 13 interrogative tracks – as full of depth, strangeness, and contradictions as they are lifting hooks – the band balances existential, environmental, and political anxieties with fatherly sentiments, self-satirizing lyrics, forever-lively guitar lines, and shimmering strings.
The band underwent a collaborative evolution for this album, which saw each member experimenting in new roles, and alongside Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath, Matt Barrick of The Walkmen, Aaron Johnston of Brazilian Girls and a string quartet all play on the record.
New UK & European tour dates
11th June – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds Tickets
13th June – Vicar Street, Dublin Tickets
14th June – Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow Tickets
16th June – Orangerie at Botanique, Brussels Tickets
17th June – Luxor, Koln Tickets
18th June – Trabendo, Paris Tickets
20th June – Roundhouse, London Tickets
21st June – Tivolivredenburg Pandora Hall, Utrecht Tickets
22nd June – Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin Tickets
24th June – Pumpehuset, Copenhagen Tickets
Tickets on sale 24th Jan 10am
Real Estate The Main Thing
Album | 28th February 2020
Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specialising in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. The Main Thing dives even further into the musical dichotomies they’re known for—lilting, bright guitar lines set against emotionally nuanced lyrics, complex arrangements conveyed breezily— and what emerges is a superlative collection of interrogative songs as full of depth, strangeness and contradictions as they are lifting hooks.
Real Estate The Main Thing
Album | 28th February 2020
Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specialising in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. The Main Thing dives even further into the musical dichotomies they’re known for—lilting, bright guitar lines set against emotionally nuanced lyrics, complex arrangements conveyed breezily— and what emerges is a superlative collection of interrogative songs as full of depth, strangeness and contradictions as they are lifting hooks.
