Washed Out - Feel It All Around

Has anyone heard this yet? My friend gave me an ep called Life of Leisure and High Times. I like it,

I also notice Aeroplane included Belong on their mix. Here's his myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/thebabeinthewoods

My friend described him as Shoegazing dance music, and I was thinking it would be another Postal Service. But the song Feel It All Around won me over.

love this dude

It's dreamy/trippy.

yeah i dig this

only 19 years old.
this ep is great!

ilxor sleep told me to check this guy out, I'm feelin it

kinda like a Nite Jewel vibe

Feel It All Around is excellent

yes, i like it too. is there more than the "Life of Leisure" ep? kinda bugs me the way the tracks just cut off at the end, but why quibble?

Air meets 10cc in a dance production = great+ a future "best new music" in pfrk.
what else can you ask for?

wait: people dance to this?

i don't know,maybe it's too slow and trippy, but a part of the production reminds mea little of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTR4qko64_o
which people used to dance to, 1000 years ago

there's a newer EP called "High Times" as alluded to above, you can get it from blogs such as this one: http://nonameleeds.blogspot.com/2009/10/washed-out-high-times-2009.html

i'm pretty sure people used to dance to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dF3PE8S1mA

and this one http://robotsinheat.com/temp/Got%20To%20Get%20Up.mp3 (from Change)

he's my favorite right now. went on a roadtrip and we listened to the Life of Leisure ep about a million times.

the only song i heard used a lot of weird compression that made it near-unlistenable, on headphones at least

I wouldn't listen to This very loudly on headphones.

I wouldn't like to hear hear this loudly in the right club.

wouldn't=would!!

not the only typo

Last night was a long night.....

i like this way better than ducktails tbh

Sounds like something I would have downloaded from Napster around 2000 or 2001.. It reminds me of Napster. I'm not sure why exactly..

yeah it definitely sounds like napster music. what?

i love the life of leisure cover

I don't know why it reminds me of napster.. I remember downloading random tracks recommended from NME's "singles of the week" thing, and their top 50 singles of the year.. a lot of it was electronic music at the time. That might have something to do with it. .. not saying that as a bad thing either. But somehow this song makes me nostalgic for 2000-2002.

good stuff

s'good!

shoegazing dance musics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY1WZR6ClqM

i really like Curve but think almost every other shoegaze band: Boo Radleys, Moose, Ride, Slowdive, Sweverdriver, Spiritualized, Lush and Catherine Wheel were much, much better.

that being said i'm really starting to like this Washed Out record...tbd.

It's OK, really. Though it is just kind of The Field + Air Supply with some woozy Chapterhouse vocals. I wouldn't call that danceable shoegaze. More like easy listening gone awry.

Too many of those stupid dreaded b-word bongos, tho.

there's a newer EP called "High Times" as alluded to above

having heard both now I think Life of Leisure is a lot better. High Times sounds more like trip-hop or something

he's playing tomorrow in new york btw
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2778274&pl=santos

only 19 years old.

the New Yorker said he is 26 fwiw

I think I like Life of Leisure more as well. High Times does have a trip hop feel, esp towards the end. Does anyone know if he uses mainly samples or if he's programing most of this music. I'd like to hear him do more housey and less trip hop music.

jacob, i posted 2 of his samples upthread

I think you misunderstood my question. I was asking if his music is sample based or not. I have both releases.

haha I think you misunderstood the answer, watch the youtube upthread of Gary Low - I Want You. sounds like for Feel It All Around he looped the beginning of that and slowed it down

and the post right below the gary low is the sample to "Get Up"

Oh, I stand corrected. Sorry.

pwned

It's been happening to me often around these parts.

Wow, I just lost a whole lotta respect for him. I mean, it's one thing to lift a sample and recontextualise it, but to take everything - backing, lead and all - and just whack a space echo on it? Not feeling it.

mannn i got nothing against rad samples and some bongos. it's not like i could really stomach the vocals on the original gary low track anyways

these samples are recontextualized

countdown to discussion of "culture jamming" and plunderphonics in five, four, three, two . .

damn cant believe this was sampled... this is worse than balloon boy

rip my innocence

I wasn't really liking the song that much to start with, so it was a bit of a letdown to find that the only bits of it I liked were lifted wholesale from somewhere else. I think I dislike the Chapterhouse vocals even more than the 80s crooner. Your mileage may vary.

i dont think you are ever satisfied with anything really

Are you kidding?

Does Washed Out take hits from the 80's? Yeah, yeah. But do it sound so crazy? Yeah, yeah

I just think that other acts are mining this kind of dreamwave seam a lot more effectively - I'd rather get excited about Memory Tapes or Phantogram or A Sunny Day In Glasgow or the like. Dancey electronic shoegaze? This is so aimed at me with a target on my back, but I think other people do it better.

He's made it to the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/arts/music/21santos.html

more like washed up, amirite?

friend went to the concert last night in NY. said it wasn't so hot :(

dude's career is OVER

this probably will have been his only chance to play the Brooklyn Vegan showcase at CMJ, and instead he'll be off getting married.

RIP

dude doesn't give a fuck about CMJ, i love it.

next step: beating up a dude from black lips

dude dude dude dude!

My friend described him as Shoegazing dance music, and I was thinking it would be another Postal Service. But the song Feel It All Around won me over.

― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 5:23 AM (1 week ago)

alright how the hell does shoegaze + dance = postal service

said it wasn't so hot :(

NYT review seems to agree. kinda glad I didn't make the effort

loving the LOL EP lots, v promising

Feel It All Around vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PuCkZ1ALkI

xpost to k3vin k. Most of the music my friend likes sounds like the postal service to me. Morr Records and such.

just heard this - great stuff. Discovered it right after hearing Orange Cake Mix - Waves in Space. Like, the general style grew up to be what this is from the late 90s to now. Or whatever, I'm stoned man. good music anyway.

god that song is good

it's like really evocative of just suffocating heat - the song is like molasses which is pretty much what you feel like during an oppressively hot summer day & it's totally languishing & lethargic which also fits i think

chopped & screwed synth pop

The limited EP "Life of Leisure" just shipped out from Insound.

wanna know what the sound quality is like. i know it's meant to all sound compressed and trebly but heard a few different-sounding rips. i'll buy it anyway it's pretty much the best thing i've heard in 09. i guess a proper album next year ft. best tracks from this, the tape thing (i like 'Belong' more than 'Feel It All Around') plus new songs would be ideal.

some tracks on High Times remind me of Rae & Christian more than anything else

a little late to the table but I like it...definitely music to drive to. Not seeing what makes it worth rebranding as 'hypnogogic pop' or whatever--falls in the same space as those Studio records, and those didn't get crazy hyped like this dude. Balearic pop perhaps? but maybe thats exactly what hypnogogic pop is.

kinda reminds of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72i6dTUKjwQ

http://vimeo.com/7519429

http://www.readplatform.com/mixtape-vi-the-fantastic-symphony/
earnest greene mix. pretty fucked. sounds like a buncha samples (i recognize some boogie song and maybe a wes montgomery sample) just tweaked to all shit.

http://www.schmooze-blog.com/?p=1336
uh.... not feeling it. too campy. too tim & eric

Have heard this amazing track in the Aeroplane mix but rediscovered via the poll. The bassline reminds me (to the point of wondering if it was sampled) of "Thieves Like Us".

most of the backing track (including bass) is a sample from "i want you" by gary low

Perhaps it inspired New Order...

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/niteside/NiteVid__Washed_Out_Chills_Out_at_Mercury_Lounge_All__National_.html

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/how_washed_out_became_the_poster_boy_of_electro_s_chillwave_movement/Content?oid=1452339

does anyone what he sampled for the track "belong" ?

Does he only use samples? Belong sounds a lot like "Englishman in New York" to me, even the melody. But I'm not sure if he sampled it. If it's just samples, there are probably a lot of things in there.

whoa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8-kd-PSfGQ

dig it

yeah id fuck with that

what about an album?

better than the shitty synths used for 99% of hip hop these days that's for sure

oh shakey mo

^That "mix" is genius. It's just rapping on top of the track right?

xxxxpost

poor jacob. some of you guys are real assholes.

http://twitter.com/jessicaalba/status/27991893176#

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hipsterrunoff
HIPSTER RUNOFF

http://twitter.com/hipsterrunoff/status/28058648235

a: yes?

i dig this a lot

what's new with this guy?

Washed Out: Excited to announce signing with Sub Pop Records and Weird World! Looking forward to July!

his EPs were good airplane music

^dead to me

aaaaaalright

http://pitchfork.com/news/42373-new-washed-out-eyes-be-closed/

dope

IMO the only Chillwaver who makes anything worth listening.

I've been trying to figure out what those drums remind me of. I'm thinking maybe "Burning Down The House" but I feel like they go back some late 70's prog. This is great BTW. It also reminds me of Slowdive and Moby's "Porcelain" only much, much better.

I like how unchillwave the cover is for the new Washed Out. Really looking forward to hearing it!

This is great BTW. It also reminds me of Slowdive and Moby's "Porcelain" only much, much better.

Ha. I opened the thread to say "so Porcelain, hm?"

this shit just sounds like some 90s ish & its mad generic.

just download some thievery corp imo

oh wow this song is fantastic!

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/washedout_1.jpg

good photo.. but then..

http://pitchfork.com/news/42404-yup-washed-outs-album-cover-was-in-icosmoi/

what if it IS the most satisfying sex album?

this is odd. it's a pleasant song, but much more deserving of "pretty but inconsequential" criticism than fleet foxes or whoever. reminds me in a strange, watered-down way of U2.

rototom-style drum fills are cool, and yeah, reminscent of "burning down the house", but like daavid says, they're also a prog thing, maybe a post-prog thing. like a less boomy version of that famous bit in phil collins' "in the air tonight".

i dont get 'watered down u2.' this shit is straight up 90s trip hop ish, sounds like a thievery corp album track imho

oops already made the TC jab. pretend i said 'sneaker pimps

you ppl just never stop having opinions

well, it only half sounds like something U2 would do melodically, in terms of the soaring vocal line vs. the whooshy synth parts. but if it were U2, the singer would be good, the beat would be a boring rhythm section, and the synth clouds would be the edge massaging sustain (or whatever).

you ppl just never stop having opinions

― -( ☃)*( ☃)- (Lamp), Wednesday, May 4, 2011 6:04 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this shit is wack u will get over it

I hear the U2 thing, kinda like one of the Unforgettable Fire b-sides. But those are like the best U2 songs ever, so cool.

new song really reminds me of 'feel it all around' by washed out

really? it reminds me of chillwave from 2011 or music that I heard that comes out of speakers.

this is great, makes me want to listen to moby

that lushlife rmx is pretty ill too

this is great, makes me want to listen to moby

― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Thursday, May 5, 2011 1:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o_O

im actually way into 90s-sounding ish this just feels blander to me ... still dont understand why no one is doing a revive of the chem bros

Give it a few years. The decade is still young.

"feel it all around" made me want to listen to "days go by"

i think the thing abt this new washed out is its the pt where he goes from creating something that, while steeped in retro, is ostensibly 'new' to just being a 90s revivalist

pretty cool track, i guess i hear the U2 thing a little bit.

the weird thing about all this new zeitgeisty millenial neo-hipster stuff - toro y moi, the weeknd, washed out, jj - is that it's all undeniably aesthetically pleasing (they KNOW who to steal their hooks from), but i can't say i like it. i can't be totally into it. i think it's because it remains on this yearning psuedo-sincerity tip and never confronts reality like Real Men.

the only nice moment on this new washed out tune is the drums indeed, but that's just because they're stolen from real dance tracks (which he's obviously influenced by), and in that indie juxtaposition it works cos it's still new. see also tan lines' drums.

so what does this track do? the vocals are annoying, it's musically uninspiring, and there's no song in here too. above all, it proves how ignorant ernest and his crowd are. this has all been done before, and in much better ways. take any balearic artist - max essa, coyote, studio, tiedye, etc - and they've already conquered these territories again and again. so why are we paying attention to this? pretense, i guess, is what we're left with. and washed out's pretense isn't that interesting.

oh and by the way, does anyone still listen to toro y moi's new album? doesn't it seem awfully boring now?

and yeah, moby rocks.

After listening to 'Eyes Be Closed' a few times, I can't find anything to like about it. After falling in love with 'Belong' I was really hoping for something more inspiring, even if Belong was the only song I loved off that ep. Maybe the album will have a few saving graces on it.

xpost

Underneath the Pine came out only a few months ago. How is it that you're already bored of an album that gets basically zero radio play or mainstream attention?

What's the point of listening to anything new if it's considered old as soon as it stops playing?

New track "Echoes" here (min 36).

Somebody's been listening to "The Beach" a lot lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuhkrdfHq9g

^I meant "The Beach" soundtrack

Not a bad thing BTW!

No, but I prefer 'Pure Shores' tbh

streaming:

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/22/137340922/first-listen-washed-out-within-and-without

first track is a dead ringer for the cars "who's gonna drive you home"

'Before' is wonderful, sounds like ulrich schnauss almost

what's the verdict on the new record ?

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15614-within-and-without/

Here are some sentences I don't like:

"Despite the inevitable and rather unjust critical backlash, the
Freudian gender policing inherent in the critical opprobrium that soon
rained down upon these (mostly male) starry-eyed and hopeless
romantics, there was not a small amount of work produced at this time
which was deeply affective/effective. The cream of this lush crop was
Ernest Greene (a.k.a. Washed Out)'s Life of Leisure EP, which came as
close to actually managing the transcendence mentioned above as music
can. So the longing thus inspired was particularly sharp or, more
accurately, double-edged, in relation to the release of Greene's debut
LP."

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/washed-out-within-and-without

Is there a good name for whatever style this is? It seems to be very now in a way that I'm young enough to notice but too fully understand -- that californiaish, burnout, vans-with-no-socks and ray-bans endless summer sound that seems to be one of the prevailing ones (yeah, partly because it's summer).

this shit is called chillwave, bruh

haha

where have you been doggie

oh right

Sometimes these guys remind me a little of UB40 or PMDawn

i like to chill http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

me too dave cool let's chill right here in this thread http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGisre9xNU

so as far as this sort of thing goes, it's not bad but nothing special. yet it seems to be getting huge. makes me wonder if it's the sub pop effect, like the similarly not bad but unremarkable beach house

do people really think this is the best "chillwave" thing there is?

the best chillwave thing there is definitely "going to the beach"

at least for me

just today i was talking to someone at work about this, theyve never had any 'chillwave' before but theyre p into it, they like beach house too so

its not a particularly good album but i still like it ok, in some ways i wish there was more to this so that good or bad it was worth talking abt but maybe its that unassuming bland quality that ppl are latching on to??

Thievery Corp fuckin sucks wtf

holy hell this album is a bore

also it is dreamy and gorgeous

Also huge lol at stubborn hipsters not giving 80s U2 their due

i love 80s U2

Before is just about perfect

lol the whispery vocals on the new one remind me of Enigma's "Sadeness". the 90s are BACK BACK BACK!

not really into this new one. for me I think this guy made one perfect track (Feel It All Around) and the rest is never going to stack up.

Would I like this?

did you like the last one?

I like it fine

Don't answer him when he asks "would I like this?" It's the only way he'll learn.

Or alternatively say "yes" when you really mean "no".

I've never heard him! And I've not asked 'would I like (x)?' in ages! Can't listen at work and quite fancy buying a CD on the way home in 2 minutes.

X are also great

lol.

- Take a loop from some early '90s pop/house/swing track, Ace Of Base maybe?
- Add a bunch of digital reverb. Make sure it's nice and smudgy so you can't quite make out any of the sounds
- Apply some cruddy software distortion - remember, you don't want this to sound too good, now
- Oh, and time stretch it a bit too while you're at it
- Wash, rinse, repeat
- Take a Valium and mutter some MBV-esque vocals that sound like "Wan wan wan" over the top

And you're done!

Have you even heard this record?

at the very least, dude writes catchy melodies

God, that Sandra song way upthread is so immortal... I'm not feeling Washed Out too much. It's like the soggier end of shoegaze, but with purposefully degraded production values and even LESS rhythmic vitality (I didn't actually think that was possible). Maybe that's just what chillwave in general feels like, though (I've managed to avoid it almost entirely)? The vocal melodies just kind of formlessly drape themselves around the chord sequences like limp strands of spaghetti. I don't know, I'm just judging from 8 or 9 YouTube clips; I'm sure it sounds better on an actual Urban Outfitters sound system.

the new Washed Out is not that bad an album, but def a letdown when compared to his previous EPs, which were really great and pretty much define that so-called "chillwave" for me.

I think this guy made one perfect track (Feel It All Around)

well maybe two, Belong is IMO very close to being perfect too, it's actually one of my favourite songs from the 00s! dude does have a hand for melody.

lamp otm there is something appealingly bland about this.

liking this

yeah i really like this, i think its better and more sophis than anything he's done before.

more beautiful, more portentously empty.

dude is talented proper

haven't fully delved into the second lp but the first one still sounds so great, esp. "you'll see it"!

don't think neon indian record holds up as well two years later. that guy has a knack for writing good pop songs, but for whatever reasons that record does not hold up as well at this point imo

those dudes should form chillwave supergroup obv

btw he apparently once had a music project with his mate Chaz Bundick (aka Toro y Moi), now that was a chillwave supergroup

didn't know that, ok

yeh, prefer VEGA to neon indian and expect i'm not alone there

of course you're not, "No Reasons" is my favoutite thing Palomo's ever done!

Neon Indian is a fucking hack, he stealeth his hooks

And his records sound terrible

Lol it sounds like I have something personal against him; it's more just his buzz track sampling a big chunk of a rundgren song and adding bad vocals

He opened for Sleigh Bells - I left & got some drinks/cigs as one can only take so much shoulder thrusting

also the bang-bang-indie girl was paying me no heed

http://i.imgur.com/klzFO.gif

plax is on the mark. Prettier, less meaningful. Nothing like better production value to show that you write the same song over and over.

Paracosm sounds so beautiful.

Sounds like an album I will be playing a lot.

"All I Know" is gorgeous, and sounds fantastic cranked up driving around with the windows down.

I sometimes get overly self-conscious when I blast music in the car with the windows down. I usually end up toning it down, especially on red lights. I'll have to work up to it.

not feeling the new lp at all, what am i missing, guys?

im w/ u

"don't give up" is ok

The title track and "All over Now" are really nice.

I love how often this band tours and comes to Texas!

lots of lols itt

you ppl just never stop having opinions

― -( ☃)*( ☃)- (Lamp), Wednesday, May 4, 2011 6:04 AM

paracosm really left me cold! maybe i should give it another shot. i guess i think maybe it's been diminishing returns for them. or did chillwave just sound fresher to me in 2009?

you otm - washed out been washed up since trying to do things 'properly' :(

that must be why their show here last week was sold out.

this song is so hilarious and wonderful

tombot get ready to have your fucking mind blown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEVpQKGjn-c

woah so did he just slow this song down wtf?

yep

i had no idea

hey he also added some woozy effects

i always heard that song and thought "this bass line is sick, how'd he come up w that?" "these drum fills are incredible, is he playing those?" etc. i guess he still is playing those. but it's by playing a record someone else made.

proto-vaporwave

i wonder how much of that Portlandia money goes to Gary Low (a lot, i hope)

i always heard that song and thought "this bass line is sick, how'd he come up w that?" "these drum fills are incredible, is he playing those?" etc. i guess he still is playing those. but it's by playing a record someone else made.

same, i originally thought that it was at least a blend of samples from different sources & playing.

i think for his second album he made a point of playing everything, idk if anyone cared by then.

So they released a new album in August and I didn't even know!

https://washedout.bandcamp.com/album/purple-noon

It's a late-night low-key affair and I'm really liking it so far... leaning into the Sade vocals

sounds so good walking across a municipal golf course at dusk

_Notes From a Quiet Life_ out June 28 on Sub Pop. Getting '80s teen movie vibes from "The Hardest Part" single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nb-M1GAOX8

Of his more recent years stuff, love 'Miles Lullaby'