Early last year, Ernest Greene moved home to his parents’ orchard in rural Georgia, USA, began making bedroom records and releasing them for friends on cassette. Before long music fans worldwide were salivating at tracks like ‘Feel It All Around’ and the so-called Chillwave sound that Ernest had pioneered. Washed Out = songs about youth & summer.
“…sounds blurred and woozily evocative, like someone smeared Vaseline all over an early OMD demo tape, then stayed up all night trying to recreate what they heard.” It’s as languid as they come and you can feel it all around yourself on Saturday 11 December.