Washed Out - Feel It All Around

- 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.

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