Real Estate - The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides and Other Detritus 2011-2025 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In Mind, the fourth full-length record from Real Estate, is a portrait of a mature band at the height of it's power. Long respected for their deft lyrical hand and gorgeous melodies, In Mind builds upon the band's reputation for crafting perfect songs and carries Real Estate even deeper into the pantheon of great songwriters. On the new record, the band fine-tunes the winsome songwriting and profound earnestness that made previous albums - 2009's Real Estate, 2011's Days, and 2014's Atlas - so beloved, and pushes their songs in a variety of compelling new directions. Written primarily by guitarist and vocalist Martin Courtney at his home in Beacon - a quiet town in upstate New York - In Mind offers a shifting of the gears, positing a band engaged in the push/pull of burgeoning adulthood.

2020 . Over the last decade, Real Estate has crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specializing in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. The Main Thing dives further into the musical dichotomies they're known for lilting, bright guitar lines set against emotionally nuanced lyrics, complex arrangements conveyed breezily. What emerges is a superlative collection of interrogative songs as full of depth, strangeness and contradictions as they are lifting hooks.

Narnia's new album; From Darkness To Light is the band's eight studio album, and a natural sequel to the previous, self-titled album, from the band's return and 20th anniversary in 2016.The spark that Narnia lit on last year's live album We Still Believe - Made in Brazil, has been followed the band into the studio, where this energy has been channeled and structured into a long parade of nine songs.With the musical roots remaining deep in melodic metal, the band has both stretched on to a modern sound where the guitars still dominate, but also allows analogue 70/80's analogue synthesizers to take place in the soundscape. The lyrics are noticeably important to the band and in true Narnia spirit this heritage has been well managed and further refined.Christian Liljegren sings with such passion that it is hard not to be touched by the vocals. This album is also produced by Narnia's guitar virtuoso CJ Grimmark, who also has written most of both lyrics and music. It is mixed by the band's sound engineer Viktor Stenquist, and once again mastered by Jens Bogren, Fascination Street Studios.The band's first tour in South America in 2017, made noticeable marks and you can hear this new reignition has come to stay. It is clearly hearble in Andreas InchHaboInch Johansson's energetic drumming, which is performed with both power and precision. With a keyboardist as Martin Härenstam, the Narnia has the caliber of another solo virtouso in the band. The synthesizers are there all the time and commute between complementing the sound image and making exciting excursions, a bit like a perfectly balanced dance in harmony with the guitar. The band's latest addition, bassist Jonatan Samuelsson, has merged well into the band and has also contributed with background vocals, playing Taurus bass pedal, songwriting and graphic design of cover.It is a united and wholehearted band that now is rele