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" I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things. "
Washed Out
New
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Child
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" I'm not a very technical musician at all. "
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" Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story - my favorite records have a narrative feel. "
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Tell
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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 changing. "
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Changing
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" Where I grew up in the middle of Georgia, hip-hop is king, and on Friday and Saturday nights, local DJs do mixes. It's a great mix of local stuff and then some of the bigger hits and remixes of the hits, and it just has this nice flow with a dirty-South sound to everything. "
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Friday
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" For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape. "
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Escape
Me
Great
" When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally. "
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Moments
See
Listen
" I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job. "
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Like
Job
" Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road. "
Washed Out
Road
Hard
Great
" The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now. "
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Now
Guess
Stuck
" Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs. "
Washed Out
Songs
Sounds
Me
" It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time. "
Washed Out
Time
Weird
Sadness
" It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away. "
Washed Out
Never
Therapy
Paint
" The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it. "
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Write
Kind
Meant To Be
" I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another. "
Washed Out
House
I Can
My Own
" When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs. "
Washed Out
Music
New
Passionate
" My general taste is towards the melancholy. "
Washed Out
General
Towards
Taste
" I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past. "
Washed Out
Music
Power
Life
" We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward. "
Washed Out
Myself
Lived
Fun
" When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture. "
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Work
You
Process
" It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that. "
Washed Out
World
You
Life
" I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that. "
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Value
DJ
Lights
" Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think. "
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Moving Forward
Think
Challenge
" Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it. "
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Got
Face
Radio
" I don't really write all that well with others. "
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Write
Others
Really
" The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy. "
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Up
Run
Sound
" I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve. "
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Past
Connection
Done
" I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different. "
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You
Magic
Better
" I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold. "
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Much
Hold
Something
" I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions. "
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Job
Change
Good
" 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 is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler. "
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Software
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Good