Days

metacritic

aoty

rollingstone

Bringing to mind Johnny Marr's sparkling guitar work with the Smiths and the Kinks song that shares their LP's name, New Jersey's Real Estate unspool pretty reveries tinged with enough guilt and confusion to keep them honest. The music runs smooth like passenger-seat leather, with buttery harmonies, strummy melodies and warm-glow reverb softening all edges: […]

pitchfork

Cleaner, sharper, and stronger than the quartet's excellent 2009 self-titled debut, Days is like a single idea divided into simple statements. No note feels wasted, and nothing happens at the wrong time or in the wrong place.