WASHED OUT
Within and Without is the debut album by 28 year-old Atlanta-based songwriter and producer Ernest Greene, AKA Washed Out. Long adored and critically lauded in the blog world, Greene first came to prominence in the summer of 2009 after unassumingly posting a handful of bedroom-recorded tracks to his Myspace page from his family home in the seclusion of the tiny rural city of Perry, Georgia. “I’d been writing music on my own for three or four years previous to that,” Greene explains, “mostly as a way to experiment with songwriting processes. Those were just the first I ever shared.”
Despite such modest intentions however, those first songs (many of which would appear on the acclaimed Life of Leisure EP of later that year) were about as complete an opening statement from an artist as imaginable. A heady, psychedelic concoction of what Pitchfork’s Mark Hogan termed “romantic nostalgia and homespun textures,” songs such as “Belong” and “Feel It All Around”—Greene’s biggest hit to date—artfully match the glossy melody of ’80s synth pop, the widescreen scope of early ’90s Balearic dance music and the slowed, heavy bounce of southern Hip Hop production to gorgeously wistful vocals with results as undeniably idiosyncratic and original as they are deeply accessible.
A remarkably impressive feat of songwriting and production given Greene’s means at the time (essentially little more than a laptop, sample bank and microphone), the songs of Life of Leisure saw him, alongside friend Chaz Bundick, AKA Toro y Moi, and the more established likes of Ariel Pink and Panda Bear, designated leader of a newly emerging DIY movement identified by David Keenan of The Wire magazine as “hypnagogic pop” for its romantic, retro-futurist…
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Washed Out - Within and Without
SP945 - Released: July 12, 2011
Washed Out is the operational alias for Atlanta, GA’s Ernest Greene, and on July 12th, we at Sub Pop Records will be releasing the first Washed Out full-length, ??Within…
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- Promo Photo - Promo 2 (by Will Govus)
- Promo Photo - Promo 1 (by Will Govus)
- Bio - Within and Without
- Cover - High Times Cassette
- Cover - High Times Cassette
- Cover - Within and Without
- Cover - Life of Leisure
- Cover - Eyes Be Closed (Remixes)
- Filter Album Review, Within and Without, August 2011
- Billboard Album Review, Within and Without, July 2011
- LA Times Album Review, Within and Without, July 2011
- NPR Song of the Day, Eyes Be Closed, August 4, 2011
- Under the Radar Feature, All in the Family, July 2011
- AV Club Album Review Within and Without July 2011
- The Fader Feature, By the Numbers, July 2011
- Spin Album Review Within and Without, June 2011
- Art Voice Feature
- BBC Washed Out Influences Mix
- Live performance of "Far Away" w/ Yours Truly
- Spin Feature "Breaking Out: Washed Out" June 2011
- Under the Radar- Album Review of "Within and Without"
- New York Times Show Review/ Album review of "Within and Without"
- Pitchfork Album Review of "Within and Without""
- Time Out New York Feature on "Within and Without"
- " Within And Without" Premature Evaluation on Stereogum
- Death + Taxes - Album Review