Washed Out - Feel It All Around

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