Washed Out - Feel It All Around

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

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