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" I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world. "

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" 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. "

Washed Out

Past

Connection

Done

" For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people. "

" My general taste is towards the melancholy. "

" The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now. "

" 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. "

Washed Out

Software

Good

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

" I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse. "

Washed Out

Inspiration

Always

" I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about. "

" I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world. "

" 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. "

Washed Out

Run

Sound

" I love listening to pop radio. "

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

" I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself. "

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

Washed Out

Job

" I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It was kind of too strict. So when I was probably 11 or 12, I started playing guitar and just kind of taught myself. "

" My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do. "

" The Washed Out thing happened really quickly, and I wasn't really actively promoting the songs. I didn't think of them as any more than demos, really, and it sort of became a thing on its own. "

" It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that. "

" 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. "

" I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything. "

" 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. "

" I don't really write all that well with others. "

" I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work. "

" My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet. "

Washed Out

Hip-Hop

People

" Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds. "

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

" I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer. "

" I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential. "

" When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated. "

" In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life. "