Washed Out

I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.

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I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It…

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I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned…

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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too…

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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see…

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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate…

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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with…

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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use…

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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the…

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The Washed Out thing happened really quickly, and I wasn't really actively promoting the songs. I didn't think of them as any…

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A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but…

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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface…

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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was…

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If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built…

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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't…

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I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.

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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly…

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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of…

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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

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I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line.…

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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I…

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I don't think it's an exciting thing to move back in with your parents.

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I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right…

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I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe…

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