The calm, earthy and delicate “Atlas,” the third Real Estate album, is less ambitious than its second album, “Days,” and somehow more heroic. It aims for maximum impact for the minimum input.

The result is at once their most forlorn album and their most beautiful. Producer and mixer Tom Schick dissolves the noncommittal haze of reverb that made it sound like you were hearing Days through a fisheye lens, and the crispness that emerges on Atlas is gorgeous. Courtney’s tenor is soft and even, and the room tone is bruised-ripe like an October sunset. In this soft light, the band sounds like the platonic ideal of themselves, and it’s difficult not to wish all their albums had been recorded this way.

Review Score : 8.5

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