The opening song “Easy” sounds like a rainy day on a beach, beautiful and tinged with melancholic flavour. Real Estate is great at making alluring and catchy pop music, ideal for reflective car or bus rides, or for just relaxing. Days is their second album, and is a great follow from their first self-titled debut which received very positive reviews across the board. The third song on Days, “It’s Real,” picks up the pace with an upbeat drumbeat and washy sound. Overall Days offers great, easily listenable pop music. I would definitely include it on a list of must listens for 2011. Did anyone catch Real Estate’s performance at Coachella this year? I bet it was great. (Domino Recording, dominorecordco.com) Kyra Leib