Washed Out - Feel It All Around

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.