
Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker has rebooted his project Alex Bleeker & The Freaks and will be releasing a new album, How Far Away , via Woodsist on May 28th. On the release, he has recruited members of Real Estate, Mountain Man, and Woods to assist. The project is easy listening as you'd expect from a member of Real Estate with more Earthy tones scattered throughout. "Step Right Up (Pour Yourself Some Wine)" follows this line of description. Late 60s/early 70s influences can [...]

Real Estate guitarist Matt Mondanile's other band, Ducktails, released one of 20132s most unjustly overlooked LPs, The Flower Lane , an album so dreamily, wondrously relaxed that it should seriously come with the same warning label you'd find stuck to the side of a bottle of Vicodin. Now, Mondanile's Real Estate bandmate, bassist Alex Bleeker, is set to release a new one from his own side project, Alex Bleeker & The Freaks, the title of which is How Far Away , and the content of which is almost as chilled-out as The Flower [...]

Real Estate guitarist Matt Mondanile's other band, Ducktails, released one of 20132s most unjustly overlooked LPs, The Flower Lane , an album so dreamily, wondrously relaxed that it should seriously come with the same warning label you'd find stuck to the side of a bottle of Vicodin. Now, Mondanile's Real Estate bandmate, bassist Alex Bleeker, is set to release a new one from his own side project, Alex Bleeker & The Freaks, the title of which is How Far Away , and the content of which is almost as chilled-out as The Flower [...]

Real Estate @ Crest Hardware, Dec. 2012 ( more by Fred Pessaro ) As mentioned , the closing night concert of the Big Sur Brooklyn Bridge Festival is happening May 19 at Music Hall of Williamsburg with Phillip Glass , Van Dyke Parks and Friends . To make the evening even more tempting, Real Estate (playing a stripped-down set) have now been added to bill. Tickets for that show are still available. [...]

Alex Bleeker and the Freaks is set to release his sophomore album, How Far Away . Most out there will focus on the fact that the Freaks is a side band for Real Estate bassist Jackson Pollis, or that it features Woods' Jarvis Tanviere, but the focal point should be on the band's name: Alex Bleeker. It his with Bleeker that the direction is set and the project comes together. How Far Away opens with "Don't Look Down", which immediately sets the tone somewhere between an obvious [...]

Alex Bleeker And The Freaks is the Neil Young by way of J Mascis creative outlet of Alex Bleeker, who plays bass in a band called Real Estate. The Freaks are assorted members of bands like Woods, Real Estate, Mountain Man, and Big Troubles. The sophomore LP will hit on May 28, 2013 via Woodsist and it's called How Far Away . Alex Bleeker hardly spends his time in Real Estate playing music that resembles that heard on this loose, roots-y folk rock tune that we have from the upcoming How Far [...]

Alex Bleeker and The Freaks @ SXSW Alex Bleeker is a professional, although he probably wouldn’t say that. He’s currently a member of two active New Jersey/Brooklyn bands: bassist of indie-pop darlings Real Estate, and guitar/frontman of Alex Bleeker and The Freaks. What was once a “loose collective,” The Freaks has grown to be an exciting, stable band, not far removed from heartland rock of The Band, Neil Young or Gram Parsons. Just coming off a tour of the Southern US, Alex Bleeker and The Freaks are prepping for the release of How [...]

Enjoy some twangy heartache from Alex Bleeker & The Freaks. Woodsist will release the sophomore album from Alex Bleeker & The Freaks. Titled How Far Away, the album details lost love and what...
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Lighting a fire for the fans of older country-inspired soul is New Jersey's Alex Bleeker , who shared his sweet 'Leave On the Light' single from his upcoming How Far Away LP. It's the second single so far from the eleven-track album, which assembles a group of stellar supporting acts, including fellow New Jersey musician Jackson Pollis of Real Estate , Mountain Man 's Amelia Meath (who provides backing vocals on 'Leave On The Light,' as well as three other featured tracks), Woods member Jarvis Tanviere, and Sam Franklin of [...]

When his day job has some downtime, Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker has taken to gathering fellow-minded musicians to fill out the group of misfits that make up Alex Bleeker And The Freaks. Members of Woods, Real Estate, and Mountain Man (to name a few) have joined Bleeker for his new album, How Far Away , and if the first single showed off the ramshackle band's ability to rock, their newest, "Leave On A Light," shows the band's bittersweet side. "I guess I didn't treat you right/ Don't wait for me, just walk on by," sings Bleeker [...]

When his day job has some downtime, Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker has taken to gathering fellow-minded musicians to fill out the group of misfits that make up Alex Bleeker And The Freaks. Members of Woods, Real Estate, and Mountain Man (to name a few) have joined Bleeker for his new album, How Far Away , and if the first single showed off the ramshackle band's ability to rock, their newest, "Leave On A Light," shows the band's bittersweet side. "I guess I didn't treat you right/ Don't wait for me, just walk on by," sings Bleeker [...]
How Far Away out May 28, 2013 on Woodsist.
Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker's eponymous side-band has released "Leave on the Light" from their upcoming sophomore album, How Far Away. In the track, the rise and fall of Bleeker's voice pairs with some woozy ... read more

Real Estates bassist Alex Bleeker är på gång med albumsläpp, denna gång med hans sidoprojekt uppbackad av The Freaks. Visst skulle detta lika gärna kunna vara en Real Estate-låt, inte så konstigt kanske med tanke på att både frontmannen Martin Courtney och gitarristen Matthew Mondanile från ovan nämnda utgör delar kompbandet. I vilket fall så är det bra skit och albumet som fått namnet How Far Away dimper ner i maj på Woodist.

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From the first inkling of a guitar to the last intonation of a lyric, Alex Bleeker ’s newest track is the kind of pleading, desperate tale that could easily shake the most hopeful of romantics. When Bleeker’s crooning voice echos "don't look back on the way we met / don't look back at me now / don't retract all the things you've said / don't back out on me," it comes across as nothing short of haunting, a last chance effort to keep just a shred of self respect. “Don’t Look Down” maintains a great deal [...]

Alex Bleeker & The Freaks target heartbreak on sophomore album. Woodsist will release the sophomore album from Alex Bleeker & The Freaks. Titled How Far Away, the album details lost love and what...
Alex Bleeker and the Freaks ist eigentlich der Bassist von Real Estate , der mit "Don't Look Down" so etwas wie die Richtung für den Rest des Albums vor gibt: Über Gitarrengeklimper und geschmeidige Orgeltöne, trällert Bleekers zerbrechliche Stimme selbstmitleidige Zeilen wie: "Don't look back on the way we met / don't look back at me now / don't retract all the things you've said / don't back out on me." Thanks for reading, check out itstoolong for more Indie music!