As a chill sweeps over campus, the self-proclaimed psychedelic pop band Real Estate's latest single "Out of Tune" invokes hazy summer days of floating aimlessly on a man-made lake. The New Jersey-based quartet, known for its own particular brand of mellow, beachy pop, sticks to what it knows for this track: growing up in suburban sprawl.

Real Estate

"Out of Tune"
True Panters

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The track has a fuzzy, sepia-tinted sound that may cause people to write it off as just another chill-out, lo-fi standard. But there isn’t anything carefree about the uneasy lyrics, which dwell on “the cars on the 95” and “having the wrong attitude.” The reverberating, overlapping guitars and melancholy lyrics that evoke themes of suburban discontent make for a rich track with texture and depth. Frontman Martin Courtney sings, "You play along to songs written for you / but you're all out of tune, you're all out of tune" as late-summer synths conjure images of restless young adults, limbs splayed out, dreaming of anywhere but here.