The M's formed in early 21st century Chicago. After a self-titled debut and a universally acclaimed sophomore follow-up (Future Women), the band members now find themselves in a new neighborhood with new history and new faces.
These new faces exist in the songs on Real Close Ones, born from the band's passage through the world as musicians, men, fathers, husbands, sons, friends, baseball fans, carpenters, drummers, guitar players, producers, authors, real estate moguls, and whatever else they are. The faces in these songs are as real as any, and they are as familiar or as unfamiliar as we are to ourselves.