Real Estate's new EP 'Half a Human' out next month

Real Estate have a new EP due out March 26 on Domino. Titled Half a Human, a collection of six songs. While the architecture of each was constructed during sessions for their 2020 album, The Main Thing, the tracks came to life when vocalist/guitarist Martin Courtney, bassist/vocalist Alex Bleeker, keyboardist Matt Kallman and guitarist Julian Lynch began trading the material back and forth remotely throughout the pandemic.

"Life keeps changing and additional responsibilities and stresses keep being added, but this band is still here," says Martin Courtney. "When I was writing a lot of these songs, I was feeling a little weird about being in a band. Like, 'how is this still a thing?' I was feeling silly about it and then coming around to it at the same time. This is what we're good at and it's what we love to do and want to keep doing. I don't want to do anything else."

The title track "Half a Human" is available now alongside a music video directed by FISK.

Watch it here: https://smarturl.it/HalfAHumanYT

"Half a Human" has long been a staple of Real Estate's live set. Martin Courtney originally wrote the lyrics about the alienation of life on tour. 

Across Half a Human the band tackles subjects of aging, connection and loss of innocence.  On "D+" - written and sung by Alex Bleeker - he recalls watching the aftermath of 9/11 from the outskirts of Real Estate's native New Jersey. On "In The Garden," the band reflects on the push-and-pull of the central question asked by the whole Half a Human EP: what does it mean to make art in America while holding on to your roots and pushing yourself into exciting new places?

In addition to working on the EP, the band released an augmented reality concert experience called The Quarantour, performed in a refrigerator, covered The Doobie Brothers, Galaxie 500 and Joni Mitchell, raised money for Fair Fight and more.

Half a Human is available digitally and on 1000 copies of a limited edition 12". Pre-order it from Domino Mart or the band's store here.

Track List:

Desire Path

Half a Human
Soon
D+
In the Garden
Ribbon