The debut album from Real life Building’s, a project founded by Baby Mollusk’s Matt van Asselt, is a collection of folk-tinged indie-rock songs, with ever-so-slight hints of punk, that was recorded over the course of "four days on a porch and in a barn in Maine." The music on "It Snowed" certainly seems to reflect the simplicity and pleasantness of its recording location. Van Asselt’s voice on songs such as "Your Toothbrush" and the opening track, "In The Sky Today," emanates an air of serentiy over the laid-back instrumentals, and manages to do so even when the energy of the rest of the band rises on songs like "Thaw" (streaming below). The lyrics themselves sound like an experiment in stream-of-conciousness songwriting, meandering through a series of seemingly mundane developments that are presented in such a delicate and wistful manner that they become intriguing and even compelling. The record is currently available on Bandcamp and as a cassette through Mt. Home Arts, which Van Asselt helps run. You can check out Real Life Buildings on October 2nd when they’ll be performing at Baby’s All Right. – Patrick Wolff
