Washed Out - Feel It All Around

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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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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