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Washed Out – Life of Leisure  is released on 14 June on Mexican Summer.

Washed Out - Life of Leisure

Washed Out is Ernest Weatherly Greene, a 26-year old from Georgia. His debut EP, Life of Leisure, is a pop-bleached, synthesised journey into the ambient outreaches of his mind.

Crafted in Greene’s bedroom, the EP’s six tracks are wrapped in a woozy, woolly mix, where simple, soaring melodies, low-slung frequencies and sunset synthesisers bleed into one reverb-drenched wash of the wave.

Life of Leisure opens with Get Up, which swaggers with a hazy dance floor funk, before gliding into the ethereal thermals of New Theory, a track that blends the psychedelic strains of MGMT with the otherworldly whispers of Angelo Badalamenti.

Based on a sample from Gary Low’s 1983 single I Want You, Feel It All Around perches on the cusp of eighties cheese; the synth vocal, popping baseline and Caribbean percussion interludes all move close, dangerously close depending on your tastes, to Phyllis Nelson.

However, the only bodies touching in Greene’s work are those of a celestial nature. The track is powered by so much reverb that it leaps from Nelson’s grasp on a never-ending, upward trajectory, where it floats free in time and space among the star-burst echoes of Chapterhouse and Slowdive.

Washed Out play six UK dates around the bank holiday weekend and the proposition of seeing Greene live is a fascinating one. If outputs are channelled through the motherboard of all reverb units then expect to take an untethered helium-balloon ride to the other side of consciousness. 

These are Greene’s first European dates, coming on the back of critically acclaimed performances at this year’s SXSW Festival.
Thu 27th May - LEEDS Nation of Shopkeepers
Fri 28th May - GLASGOW Stereo
Sat 29th May - BRISTOL Dot to Dot Festival
Sun 30th May - NOTTINGHAM Dot to Dot Festival
Mon 31st May - MANCHESTER Dot to Dot Festival
Tue 1st June - LONDON Cargo
Wed 2rd June - BRIGHTON Freebutt
Thu 3th June - AMSTERDAM Trouw
Fri 4th June - HAMBURG Indra
Sat 5th June - GENT Charlatan
Sun 6th June - PARIS Villette Sonique

 Visit Washed Out’s Myspace site.

Listen to Get Up, by Washed Out.