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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful
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It is no surprise that Washed Out's debut EP Life of Leisure makes more sense to anyone not born after 1990. It almost seems primed for listeners who were born or spent a significant part of their lives in the late 1980's and early 90's. First time listeners of the EP will be quick to note that the "sound quality" seems a bit off--many of the tracks sound as if they were originally cassette recordings which were probably shoddy copies of other cassettes. The entire album is a collage of these sorts of low-quality musical snippets, cut and pasted together in an almost sentimental manner. Life of Leisure sounds more like the musical equivalent of a graduating high school senior in the process of scrapbooking her childhood.
The premise surrounding the creation of Life of Leisure itself is nothing new. The album is a collection of obscure samples from a wide variety of places. The samples themselves are not necessarily "non-musical" samples--they seem more like soft tunes from 80's soap operas and television commercials. Sampling has been used over and over again in digital music. One of the predecessors to Washed Out's sound is most likely to have been Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry's musique concrete. Musique concrete, developed in the late 40's and 50's in France, utilized taped recordings and samples and mixed, spliced, split, and combined them together to create electroacoustic music. Washed Out seems unusually in touch with musique conrete--virtually all of their samples come from analog tape recordings with none of the music completely computer-generated.
Washed Out's use of samples is particularly unique, meant to invoke a certain nostalgia for those who lived through the 80's and 90's. Many of the samples are originally analog recordings from either cassettes or VCR tapes. The original cassettes and VCR tapes are then copied onto blank cassettes and VCR's, similar to music and video piracy of the old days. Anyone who has been alive to practice such bootlegging is familiar with the loss of sound and sampling quality associated with analog bootlegging. The samples and then cut, spliced, and combined together to make a "lo-fi" recording. It should also be noted that despite being around for only a year or two, this isn't Washed Out's first release, but it is their only digital release. They released a cassette-only EP back in September.
Washed Out's sound seems to create a certain atmosphere for the listener. To this end, they seem much more like ambient artists than many other sample-based artists. If one were to draw comparisons, Washed Out sounds a lot like the Brian Eno of the 80's if he had utilized cheesy 80's music recordings and commercials. Their single from the album, "Feel it All Around," reminds one of a childhood vacation to a beach resort. It's no surprise that the accompanying music video is purely a videotaped montage of the artists' and his wife's honeymoon. One Amazon reviewer had noted, "[The music takes me] to a place somewhere between childhood lake trips, hiding from my mom under clothes racks in department stores and that sublime bliss you have when you meet the girl of your dreams." Life of Leisure may be properly described as a less-dark version of DJ Shadow's revolutionary album Endtroducing..., utilizing only low-quality recordings from the 70's, 80's, and early 90's.
Life of Leisure is a modern-day derivative of musique concrete and ambient music, put together in such an artful manner that it evokes one of certain childhood memories and feel-good sunshine stories. For those who always romanticize the past and their childhood, Life of Leisure may be the perfect accompanying soundtrack.
The premise surrounding the creation of Life of Leisure itself is nothing new. The album is a collection of obscure samples from a wide variety of places. The samples themselves are not necessarily "non-musical" samples--they seem more like soft tunes from 80's soap operas and television commercials. Sampling has been used over and over again in digital music. One of the predecessors to Washed Out's sound is most likely to have been Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry's musique concrete. Musique concrete, developed in the late 40's and 50's in France, utilized taped recordings and samples and mixed, spliced, split, and combined them together to create electroacoustic music. Washed Out seems unusually in touch with musique conrete--virtually all of their samples come from analog tape recordings with none of the music completely computer-generated.
Washed Out's use of samples is particularly unique, meant to invoke a certain nostalgia for those who lived through the 80's and 90's. Many of the samples are originally analog recordings from either cassettes or VCR tapes. The original cassettes and VCR tapes are then copied onto blank cassettes and VCR's, similar to music and video piracy of the old days. Anyone who has been alive to practice such bootlegging is familiar with the loss of sound and sampling quality associated with analog bootlegging. The samples and then cut, spliced, and combined together to make a "lo-fi" recording. It should also be noted that despite being around for only a year or two, this isn't Washed Out's first release, but it is their only digital release. They released a cassette-only EP back in September.
Washed Out's sound seems to create a certain atmosphere for the listener. To this end, they seem much more like ambient artists than many other sample-based artists. If one were to draw comparisons, Washed Out sounds a lot like the Brian Eno of the 80's if he had utilized cheesy 80's music recordings and commercials. Their single from the album, "Feel it All Around," reminds one of a childhood vacation to a beach resort. It's no surprise that the accompanying music video is purely a videotaped montage of the artists' and his wife's honeymoon. One Amazon reviewer had noted, "[The music takes me] to a place somewhere between childhood lake trips, hiding from my mom under clothes racks in department stores and that sublime bliss you have when you meet the girl of your dreams." Life of Leisure may be properly described as a less-dark version of DJ Shadow's revolutionary album Endtroducing..., utilizing only low-quality recordings from the 70's, 80's, and early 90's.
Life of Leisure is a modern-day derivative of musique concrete and ambient music, put together in such an artful manner that it evokes one of certain childhood memories and feel-good sunshine stories. For those who always romanticize the past and their childhood, Life of Leisure may be the perfect accompanying soundtrack.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
You never start or stop listening to Washed Out's "Life of Leisure"; you get dropped into and pulled out of it. It was there before and it will be there when you're gone; music that has no end.
Scratch that, you don't even LISTEN to "Life of Leisure". You feel it...all around. Like the warmth of the sun after climbing out of the cold pool, laying there with sunglasses on, eventually falling asleep, waking up in a haze and knowing you are glad you aren't doing anything else.
I may only be the tenth reviewer in almost a year-and-a-half, but so many of the true greats are late in getting their due. Perhaps I am premature in stating this, but "Life of Leisure" is an important record.
The best in years.
Scratch that, you don't even LISTEN to "Life of Leisure". You feel it...all around. Like the warmth of the sun after climbing out of the cold pool, laying there with sunglasses on, eventually falling asleep, waking up in a haze and knowing you are glad you aren't doing anything else.
I may only be the tenth reviewer in almost a year-and-a-half, but so many of the true greats are late in getting their due. Perhaps I am premature in stating this, but "Life of Leisure" is an important record.
The best in years.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:MP3 Download
Not sure how to express what this album does for me. I instantly and honestly fell in love with "feel it all around." This song particularly took me to a place somewhere between childhood lake trips, hiding from my mom under clothes racks in department stores and that sublime bliss you have when you meet the girl of your dreams. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a new sound in music that is tired of all the same old incest that we call "music" these days.
Thanks,
Thanks,
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Bad sound
The sound quailty on this lp is so bad that I almost threw the record out the window it's too bad that the LP sounds so bad becuse the music was great...
Published 2 months ago by Larry W. Simpson
So Much Unrealized Potential
This EP plays like a collection of unfinished song ideas that were found on the cutting room floor. Only a couple of tunes break the 3-minute threshold, and they end abruptly and... Read more
Published 2 months ago by P. Ras
WHY? OH WHY CAN I NOT BUY THIS ON CD??!!??
Please, I'm sending my plea out into the void.
Please, please, please do a wide release of this incredible, incredible debut EP.
Please, please, please do a wide release of this incredible, incredible debut EP.
Published 4 months ago by C. Cassidy
Poor quality Cloud offering
The music is good for its nostalgic dreamy quality. However, this being one of my first Cloud-based music purchases, finding that two out of six tracks just end in the middle of... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Hugh Secker-Walker
Swimming In The Ocean
Lovely chillwave, exactly as advertised. And since the LP doesn't improve on this rather elegant succession of six lo-fi ambient house tracks, I'll just call it the perfect summer... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Markus Rauchenwald
Lo-Fi sound detracts from its greatness
I'm in the same boat as everybody else - the tunes are superb here! But the quality of the sounds really do detract from its greatness. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Hammer-Y
Feels Like Going to the Beach When I Was a Kid
Washed Out is a rising solo artist involved in a rapidly growing genre described by some as "chill-wave. Read more
Published on March 15, 2010 by Techno Sonic the Hedgehog
Boring
Not only the tunes are mediocre at best, the tracks also end abruptly without any logical finish. It's like the composer got bored (and for a good reason) and decided to just cut... Read more
Published on December 31, 2009 by Ashot Geodakov
Just what I was looking for
Relaxing electro. I really enjoy this album. Here's hoping that they come out with more.
Published on December 17, 2009 by Robert Lund
Stunning!
I have two words: buy this. I discovered Washed Out through a friend on Twitter and bought these songs right away because I was so impressed by the music. Read more
Published on November 21, 2009 by Daniel Ting
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