Album Review
Washed Out - Purple Noon
3-5 StarsA glacial melt of shimmering beauty, asking for attention and rewarding it with a kind of zen.
This is perhaps the closest Washed Out has ever been to his namesake. While his trademark layered vocal style and ‘80s influence makes ‘Purple Noon’ unmistakably his own, in almost every other regard he’s shifted his sound to something more restrained, more elusive and more fragile. At its core, funk is replaced by reflective ennui, updating the sound to something like Joji, or even the vaporwave texture of Luxury Elite. This is a much slower, more repetitive album, and given the equally limited scope of the lyrics, it’d be easy to dismiss it as the same song ten times. But when the drums on ‘Paralyzed’ lean more towards Timbaland than Underworld, or the jazzy Van Morrison chords of ‘Game Of Chance’ are played by the only obvious guitar on the album, it draws the ear to the slight shift, inviting you to delve deeper into its layered patchwork of sounds. The album proves to be a glacial melt of shimmering beauty, asking for attention and rewarding it with a kind of zen.
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Washed Out shares ‘Paralyzed’
The new track and vid come ahead of new album 'Purple Noon'.
5th August 2020, 12:00am
Washed Out confirms new album ‘Purple Noon’
He's also sharing new track 'Time To Walk Away' as well!
30th June 2020, 12:00am
Washed Out has announced new European tour dates
It includes a date in London in December.
13th September 2017, 12:00am
Washed Out shares ‘Weightless’ video
The song features on last year's 'Paracosm'.
4th June 2014, 12:00am
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