Real Estate - The Main Thing

The Main Thing is the fifth studio album by American indie rock band Real Estate, released in February 2020 via Domino.

Over the last decade, Real Estate have 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.

The band were collectively inspired by the Roxy Music album Avalon (1982) during the recording process: "The name of our album is a nod to one of the songs on that record. Just in terms of production and the sounds, with the way that album feels really open and the ambient sections between songs, we were aspiring at least in one sense to do that on this record."

This double album 2LP record set is on black vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with a download code, pressed in Europe via Domino.