Alex Bleeker and the Freaks

Real Estate member Alex Bleeker and his freak parade revamp his original band's breezy vibe with a spattering of pastoral sensibility and country saunter (you might have caught their Grateful Dead set at Brooklyn Bowl earlier this year). As you'll hear on the tracks, (they'll play from their new LP, Country Agenda)the mix is a surprising but refreshingly novel trajectory away from Bleeker's former indie routine.