Real Estate Share New Single/Video “Darling,” Announce New Album In Mind

For bands such as The National, Beach House or Real Estate, change is glacially incremental. The differences are infinitesimal and hardly noticeable in the moment, but they add up over time.

“Darling,” the first track to be released off of Real Estate’s newly announced fourth LP In Mind, is the band’s largest leap forward yet. Though they are now sans founding guitarist Matt Mondanile, the dream-pop group’s signature guitar chime remains intact. But now it pairs with a gently gliding synth figure that hasn’t really been heard from Real Estate before. And while those guitars do still chime, certain lines have sort of vapor trails behind them that weren’t around for Days or Atlas. And Martin Courtney stays singing about romantic love but there’s a more pronounced impatience to it. Real Estate continue to sound like Real Estate, albeit with a few subtle tweaks.