This is the Reality EP by Real Estate. It’s a little more ambling than their previous efforts.

this album is also really chill. i don’t quite know what else to say but if the song “landrunner” doesn’t make you feel like the coolest person in the world when you listen to it then maybe you’re already cool. but i doubt it.

this is my favorite Ducktails album. i like the fun dot pattern cover with pan-african colors on them. i originally got into Ducktails because someone described his music as “tropical” and who doesn’t like the tropics. this is the solo project of Matt Mondanile, who plays in Real Estate and Predator Vision and Parasails and fifty other bands I’ve forgotten. i suggest you put this album on to get yourself out of bed in the morning.

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here are two prior releases. they’re pretty good too. i think the song “old folks” on the 7″ is awesome, maybe you will too.

these peeps are from Jersey. they have a song called Atlantic City. i fell in love with ac this summer, it’s an awesome place to go and buy tons of m&ms and meet famous trashy people. this is some surf-pop psychy lackadaisical music that i challenge you not to enjoy. all you really need are the 7″ and atlantic city expressway, but the s/t sounds nicer all together and has a few great tracks near the end. the reality ep on mexican summer (one of my favorite labels with releases from ariel pink, kurt vile, washed out, pearl harbor, weekend, and more) is really great as well.

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Meanderthals are, according to Urban Dictionary, “People who wander around aimlessly and always seem to get in your way in stores and supermarkets, chatting on their cell phones and paying no attention to their surroundings.” So starts the last.fm description of this new dj/production outfit’s debut, though I myself prefer the second definition, “Conversationalist that wanders from one subject to another with no apparent point, never reaching the end of the story.” This album is a combination between Norwegian producer Rune Lindbæk and London disco sensations the Idjut Boys and was recorded live between Oslo and London. The end result? A slow, meandering mixture of folky acoustic atmospherics with a balearic sheen. It’s disco on its day off, taking a vacation from the dancefloors of the shores to summer in the fields with a midday picnic. It’s lazy, wandering electronic music that is as sunny//trippy as it is slow\\groovy, with influences ranging from psychedelia and krautrock to dub and lounge. Highly recommended.

For fans of: Studio, Quiet Village, D. Lissvik, Hatchback, Air France

Best tracks: Andromeda (Prelude to the Future), Desire Lines, Collective Fetish

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