“Talking Backwards” by Real Estate

"Talking Backwards" was the first taste of Atlas, Real Estate's third album, arriving through Domino in January 2014, and it's a relationship song written from the far end of a long tour. Martin Courtney, the band's frontman, was newly married when he wrote it, fresh off a lengthy run on the road and already dreading the next one, and he turns that ache into a quiet study of two people failing to hear each other across the distance.

Tom Schick produced, engineered and mixed it at the Magic Shop in New York, keeping everything clean, bright and unhurried, and critics warmed to it.

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