Real Estate have introduced a brand new rarities album. Out this Friday, Could 2, The Wee Small Hours will characteristic B-sides, covers, and beforehand unreleased songs from the New Jersey band’s 14-year tenure with Domino. It consists of additionally Actual Property’s renditions of Tv’s “Days,” the Nerves’ “Paper Dolls,” and the Strokes’ “Barely Legal.” See the brand new album’s full tracklist beneath.
“That is one thing we’ve talked about doing for some time now,” Actual Property frontman Martin Courtney mentioned in a press assertion. “The title comes from the lyrics to an unreleased track we recorded through the Atlas classes at Wilco’s loft in Chicago again in 2013, which in flip references a fantastic Frank Sinatra report. This feels to us like a worthy addition to the catalog and we hope you all adore it.”
Actual Property’s newest studio album, Daniel, got here out in 2024. As we speak, they’ve additionally shared a Micah Welner–directed music video for “Pink Sky,” which opens The Wee Small Hours and beforehand appeared on the Cardinals at the Window benefit compilation. Watch the video—that includes Martin Courtney dressed as a wizard—beneath.
Actual Property launched their self-titled debut by way of Woodsist in 2009. They joined Domino in 2011, and the label issued the group’s subsequent 5 studio albums: Days (2011), Atlas (2014), In Mind (2017), The Main Thing (2020), and Daniel.
Examine Days at No. 124 in “The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s.”
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The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides and Different Detritus 2011-2025:
01 Pink Sky
02 Precisely Nothing
03 Barely Authorized
04 In My Automobile
05 Two Half, Half Two
06 Paper Dolls
07 Blue Lebaron
08 Days
09 The Chancellor
10 Recreation
11 Daniel
12 Two Half
