New Estate
Considering…
Kittridge Records 

New Estate is your average lo-fi indie rock band. Considering… is your average indie rock album. It isn’t bad by any means however. It’s the sort of album I would listen to while folding my laundry. The songs are non intrusive, but fun. Songs like Open and Learning Zone have a feel of Yo La Tengo to them, while Collage and Don’t Like the Way have the feel of a band like Pavement.

After sometime, it starts to become apparent that New Estate is a pretty good band writing pretty good music; the only real problem is that they aren’t doing much of anything we all haven’t heard before from plenty of other bands. The songs sit in a limbo of average indie rock with a few stand out tracks to help keep it afloat. Otherwise, the songs simply blend into each other. A soup of rock if you will. It doesn’t leave a bad taste in your mouth, but it still needs something more to make it worth your while.