All the Same

Real Estate close Days with “All the Same,” seven minutes of chiming guitars and Martin Courtney’s soft, barely-there vocals that evoke a very specific feeling: a suburban afternoon in which nothing is happening and somehow everything is happening anyway. The song has two movements — a verse-based first half and a long instrumental outro that functions like a slow tracking shot.

The guitar tones are warm and unhurried. The drums are polite. Nothing here is trying to impress you. Seven minutes of music for the walk home from school in the specific grade of your life when you started to notice that the walk home from school was going to be something you missed. Put it on, let it do its thing, be scored.