Notes from a Quiet Life Washed Out

• 1 Waking Up 04:39
• 2 Say Goodbye 04:35
• 3 Got Your Back 04:14
• 4 The Hardest Part 04:05
• 5 A Sign 03:21
• 6 Second Sight 03:42
• 7 Running Away 03:58
• 8 Wait on You 02:56
• 9 Wondrous Life 04:03
• 10 Letting Go 04:28
• Total Runtime 40:01

Info for Notes from a Quiet Life

Butterweicher elektronischer Indie-Pop, der sich zwischen Sonnenuntergangsromantik und Weichspüler-Ästehtik sehr wohl fühlt und kuschelige Weichheit mit sehnsuchtsvoller Melancholie im gesanglichen Ausdruck verbindet. Da zupft dann auch gerne immer wieder eine akustische Gitarre inmitten der Synthesizer. Verschiedene kleine Gesangs-Effekte sorgen für zusätzliche Seelenpflege in hall-verliebten Räumen. Das 5te Album des aus Georgia stammenden Musikers, entstand in der ländlichen Gegend, in der er aufgewachsen ist, klingt aber oftmals auch eher nach urbaner Weite und Verlorenheit in einer unpersönlichen Welt und schöpft gern aus dem unendlichen Ästhetikpool der 80er Jahre. ry estate, and he wasn’t living a cosmopolitan lifestyle. He was focused on just making good work, you know?”

Washed Out

Washed Out
is Atlanta-based producer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ernest Greene. Over the course of three uniquely enchanting, critically-lauded albums and an EP, the music he makes has proved both transportive and visual, each new effort inviting listeners into immersive, self-contained universes. With Purple Noon, his fourth album, and return to Sub Pop, he delivers the most accessible Washed Out creation to date.

Life of Leisure, the first Washed Out EP, set the bar for the Chillwave era, shimmering in a warm haze of off-the-cuff Polaroids and pre-IG filters. Within and Without, his full-length debut on Sub Pop, found Washed Out’s sound morphing into nocturnal, icy synth-pop and embraced provocative imagery. Paracosm is Greene’s take on psychedelia, with a full live band and kaleidoscopic light show, and saw him playing to the largest audiences of his career. The sample-heavy Mister Mellow delivered a 360 audio/visual experience, with cut-n-paste and hand-drawn animation to match the hip hop influences throughout the album. With each release, Greene has approached his evolving project with meticulous detail and a steadfast vision.

For Purple Noon, Greene again wrote, recorded, and produced the entirety of the album, with mixing handled by frequent collaborator Ben H. Allen (Paracosm, Within and Without). Production of the album followed a brief stint of writing for other artists (most notably with Sudan Archives on her debut Athena) which enabled Greene to explore genres like R&B and modern pop for the first time. These brighter, more robust sounds made their way into the songs of Purple Noon and mark a new chapter in Greene’s growth both as a producer and songwriter. The vocals are front and center, tempos are slower, beats bolder, and overall, a more comprehensive depth of dynamics that has yet to be heard on a Washed Out record. One can hear the luxuriousness of Sade, the sonic bombast of Phil Collins, and the lush atmosphere of the great Balearic beat classics.

The coastlines of the Mediterranean inspire Purple Noon, and Greene pays tribute to the region’s distinct island culture – with all of its rugged elegance and old-world charm – and uses it as a backdrop to tell the album’s stories of passion, love, and loss (Purple Noon’s title comes from the 1960 film directed by Rene Clement, which is based on the novel “The Talented Mister Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith). Much like the romantic Hollywood epics, the melodrama throughout is strong – a serendipitous first meeting in “Too Late”; the passionate love affair in “Paralyzed”; the disintegration of a relationship in “Time to Walk Away”; the reunion with a lost love in “Game of Chance.” Each Washed Out release has been rooted in a form of escapism, but coupled with this new layer of emotional intensity, Purple Noon takes Washed Out’s music to dazzling new heights.

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