Live Review: WATCH: Washed Out 'All I Know' (Official Video)
Ernest Greene aka WASHED OUT has released the stunning movie-cross-music clip for 'ALL I KNOW'.
This is the guy - Ernest Greene from Georgia, USA. Better known to the world as WASHED OUT, aka the guy (along with Toro Y Moi) who started the chillwave whole movement. All hail the king.
With the birth of the internet a few decades back, the world has seen many subcultures of music spring up from all over the world, and mature very quickly - a perfect example of one of these peculiar happenings is named chillwave. A type of lo-fi cassette-driven dream-wave music that was born out of teenage suburbia, USA back in 2009 - a time that seems forever ago, considering how much this music has grown and matured over just a few years.
The best example of this is to explore where it all started, in the bedroom of WASHED OUT. The latest video from the once-bedroom, now signed artist accurately shows where WASHED OUT both came from and where he is now, in terms of sound and attitude. As well as showing this, it ultimately yet unintentionally reveals the very same nature about the spin-off genre he accidentally created as a by-product of his very first EP.
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Everything about this tune and video screams chillwave. The suburban setting, the hazy VHS-like quality splashed together with the crisp yet low-res quality of the instrumentation and obscure vocal tones. Chillwave, along with WASHED OUT, has grown up - it's been steadily refined, if only by just a little bit. What were once 2-3 minute pop tunes have turned into 7-8 minute progressive masterpieces, even though the washing synths and teenage aesthetics are all still intact.
All of that aside though, in essence it's still just a song and video about teenage bliss, ignorance and angst. Something the whole family can enjoy, right?
Words by Nick Luke
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