not the only typo
― cutty, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Last night was a long night.....
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i like this way better than ducktails tbh
― Bobby Wo (max), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 01:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Sounds like something I would have downloaded from Napster around 2000 or 2001.. It reminds me of Napster. I'm not sure why exactly..
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it definitely sounds like napster music. what?
― cutty, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i love the life of leisure cover
― Bobby Wo (max), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
good stuff
― calstars, Saturday, 17 October 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
s'good!
shoegazing dance musics:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY1WZR6ClqM
― guammls (QE II), Saturday, 17 October 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 18 October 2009 05:40 (fourteen years ago) link
that being said i'm really starting to like this Washed Out record...tbd.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 18 October 2009 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 08:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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 btwhttp://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2778274&pl=santos
― dmr, Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
only 19 years old.
the New Yorker said he is 26 fwiw
― dmr, Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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 Sanders, Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
jacob, i posted 2 of his samples upthread
― jaxon, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I think you misunderstood my question. I was asking if his music is sample based or not. I have both releases.
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― dmr, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
and the post right below the gary low is the sample to "Get Up"
― jaxon, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, I stand corrected. Sorry.
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
pwned
― cutty, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
It's been happening to me often around these parts.
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 18 October 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
these samples are recontextualized
― dmr, Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
countdown to discussion of "culture jamming" and plunderphonics in five, four, three, two . .
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
damn cant believe this was sampled... this is worse than balloon boy
― Bobby Wo (max), Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont think you are ever satisfied with anything really
― cutty, Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Are you kidding?
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Does Washed Out take hits from the 80's? Yeah, yeah. But do it sound so crazy? Yeah, yeah
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
He's made it to the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/arts/music/21santos.html
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
more like washed up, amirite?
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
friend went to the concert last night in NY. said it wasn't so hot :(
― jaxon, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
dude's career is OVER
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:56 (fourteen years ago) link
dude doesn't give a fuck about CMJ, i love it.
― cutty, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
next step: beating up a dude from black lips
― Bobby Wo (max), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
dude dude dude dude!
― Evan, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
said it wasn't so hot :(
NYT review seems to agree. kinda glad I didn't make the effort
― dmr, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
loving the LOL EP lots, v promising
― modescalator (blueski), Monday, 26 October 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Feel It All Around vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PuCkZ1ALkI
― modescalator (blueski), Sunday, 8 November 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost to k3vin k. Most of the music my friend likes sounds like the postal service to me. Morr Records and such.
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 8 November 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
god that song is good
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 07:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 07:22 (fourteen years ago) link
chopped & screwed synth pop
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Hullo, I'm Jon Moss (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/klzFO.gif
― (gr8080), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
plax is on the mark. Prettier, less meaningful. Nothing like better production value to show that you write the same song over and over.
― Dare, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
Paracosm sounds so beautiful.
Sounds like an album I will be playing a lot.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 04:30 (ten years ago) link
"All I Know" is gorgeous, and sounds fantastic cranked up driving around with the windows down.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 13:56 (ten years ago) link
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.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
not feeling the new lp at all, what am i missing, guys?
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
im w/ u
"don't give up" is ok
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
The title track and "All over Now" are really nice.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
I love how often this band tours and comes to Texas!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
lots of lols itt
― am0n, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
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?
― jaymc, Sunday, 21 September 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
you otm - washed out been washed up since trying to do things 'properly' :(
― nashwan, Sunday, 21 September 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
that must be why their show here last week was sold out.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 21 September 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
this song is so hilarious and wonderful
― Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Saturday, 27 February 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
tombot get ready to have your fucking mind blown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEVpQKGjn-c
― gr8080, Monday, 29 February 2016 23:23 (eight years ago) link
woah so did he just slow this song down wtf?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
yep
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
i had no idea
― nomar, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
hey he also added some woozy effects
― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
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.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
proto-vaporwave
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
i wonder how much of that Portlandia money goes to Gary Low (a lot, i hope)
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link
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.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
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
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Friday, 16 October 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
sounds so good walking across a municipal golf course at dusk
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Friday, 30 October 2020 06:46 (three years ago) link
_Notes From a Quiet Life_ out June 28 on Sub Pop. Getting '80s teen movie vibes from "The Hardest Part" single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nb-M1GAOX8
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 17:00 (three weeks ago) link
Of his more recent years stuff, love 'Miles Lullaby'
― nashwan, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 17:56 (three weeks ago) link