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Song of the Day #2,071: ‘Talking Backwards’ – Real Estate

real_estateToday’s obscure new band is Real Estate, whose third album (Atlas) is due out this March.

The New Jersey quintet released their self-titled first record in 2009 and started to receive critical attention with their sophomore effort, Days, in 2011.

The first single from Atlas is ‘Talking Backwards.’ This is one of those situations where I wasn’t sure if the song title was the band name or vice versa. We must be running out of good band names if the best people can come up with now is Real Estate and Bleachers.

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Song of the Day #2,070: ‘I Wanna Get Better’ – Bleachers

bleachersI suspect I’ll be reading a lot about my next SOTD, and the band releasing it, in the months to come.

Bleachers is a side project by Jack Antonoff the drummer, lead guitarist and backup vocalist of fun. In addition to his high-profile work with that band, Antonoff is the boyfriend of Girls‘ Lena Dunham, so he’s no stranger to publicity.

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Song of the Day #2,069: ‘Love Letters’ – Metronomy

metronomyAnother band mentioned briefly in the current Rolling Stone, Metronomy is an English electronica band that only recently added vocals to their repertoire.

‘Love Letters,’ the title song from their latest album, is an intriguing (though repetitive) little New Wave number. It’s catchy in a lo-fi, give them points for trying kind of way.

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Song of the Day #2,068: ‘Silver Timothy’ – Damien Jurado

damienjurado2744I recently heard, during a discussion about marketing, that when you are promoting a product or service, right around the moment you are borderline nauseated by the sheer volume of references you’ve thrown at your audience… that’s when they’ve noticed it for the very first time.

Most of what you say disappears into the ether. Only the bruisingly persistent are ever heard.

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Song of the Day #2,067: ‘Talking in the Dark’ – Elvis Costello

armedforcesHere’s an old Elvis Costello B-side, which I know from the album Taking Liberties. It was later released a few other times on various reissues of the Armed Forces album, which was recorded around the same time.

As usual with these Elvis Costello bonus tracks, I will leave the commentary to the man himself, who opined as follows in the Armed Forces liner notes:

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