Real Estate announce b-sides compilation, share previously unreleased “Pink Sky”

Real Estate have announced The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides and Other Detritus 2011-2025 which will be out this Friday, May 2 via Domino. “This is something we’ve talked about doing for a while now: a compilation of non-album tracks with a title, subtitle, and maybe throw a span of years in there to make it official-sounding,” Martin Courtney says. “The title comes from the lyrics to an unreleased song we recorded during the Atlas sessions at Wilco’s loft in Chicago back in 2013, which in turn references a great Frank Sinatra record. This feels to us like a worthy addition to the catalog and we hope you all love it.”

With the announcement comes the previously unreleased “Pink Sky.” Says Courtney, “‘Pink Sky’ was among the batch of songs we brought to Nashville to record for our album Daniel. Somehow it didn’t end up getting recorded, because it wasn’t totally finished, and it also just didn’t seem to play well with the others. About 18 months later, when we were in San Francisco to play Outside Lands, we recorded this and a cover of Elton John’s ‘Daniel’ in a few hours at Tiny Telephone in Oakland. A cool alternate title for the song could be ‘Mystik Spiral,’ like the band from Daria.”

The video for “Pink Sky” was directed by Micah Welner and has Martin Courtney playing a wizard helping a couple lost travelers. Watch that below.

The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides and Other Detritus 2011-2025
1. Pink Sky
2. Exactly Nothing
3. Barely Legal
4. In My Car
5. Two Part, Part Two
6. Paper Dolls
7. Blue Lebaron
8. Days
9. The Chancellor
10. Recreation
11. Daniel
12. Two Part