Within and Without
| Washed Out
Within and Without
Within and Without is the debut studio album by American singer Washed Out, released on July 6, 2011 by Sub Pop. The album debuted at number 26 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 15,000 copies, and by July 2013, it had sold 89,000 copies in the United States. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Two years after helping to define a genre with the Life of Leisure EP, Ernest Greene returns with a satisfying full-length expansion of his sound.
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Consequence of Sound
For now, and hopefully this changes with subsequent releases, just call this Washed Up.
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The Guardian
MySpace is awash with people doing something similar, but they don't have Greene's songwriting skills: what emerges on Eyes Be Closed and Far Away isn't wafty mood music, but something lithe and sensual, as befits an album whose sleeve features a couple snapped midway using a bed for a purpose other than sleeping.
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NME
Ernest Greene's first album proper lacks bite.
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NPR
With Washed Out, he seems content to just make people dance, oblivious to the strings he's busy pulling behind the curtain.
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A.V. Club Music
Overall, the tracks are longer and the sound more unified, making Washed Out’s Sub Pop debut more soporific than psychotropic.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
It’s more pleasant than arresting.
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Sputnik Music
A soothing mesh of dream and synthpop, consisting of a singer, his computer and a deeply instilled 80's pop inspiration.
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BBC
With the same torpid tempo throughout, Within and Without is an invitation to soporific surrender, and strikes a sombre, samey mood when Belong was quite strikingly seductive, a new form of synthed-up dream-pop.
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Soundblab
Within and Without isn't a bad record but it is, frankly, a dull one. It's hard to think of an environment, even chillaxing in bed, where your mind wouldn't wonder while listening to it.
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Drowned in Sound
Washed Out always stood above his supposed peers; the more he progresses out of his shell, the farther his voice will soar clear of the soon-to-break wave of generalised chillwave nonsense.
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SPIN
Dreamy.
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Grimy Goods
Within and Without celebrates Greene’s growth from bedroom musician to full-fledged artist in the guise of Washed Out.
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The Skinny
That few compositions stray too far from their beginnings is forgiveable for a 'Chillwave' act. It's just that Greene may have exercised a little too much restraint on this occasion.
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Slant Magazine
Greene revels in the dichotomy of his creation: a gorgeous clash between warm and cold, the familiar and the foreign, and perhaps most touching of all, wild-eyed innocence and world-weary disenchantment.
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Clash Music
The sound of bliss.
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Ca Va Cool
With Within and Without, Greene has solidified himself as an artist that exceeds his hype by paying close attention to contrast, and in doing so creating a balanced album of both halcyon melodies and paradisiacal summer songs.
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Pretty Much Amazing
Washed Out’s full-length debut solidifies Ernest Greene’s talent, though it skews heavily towards proving he is a formidable congregator, rather than an innovator.
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Rolling Stone
Greene’s best trick: Using those elements of the past while crafting an album that sounds like a beautiful, dreamy future.
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Glide Magazine
Within and Without is less about individual songs and more about the bigger picture of the entire soundscape.
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Collapse Board
After all, it’s the music’s total lack of substance that allows it to be anything people want it to be — the most co-optable sound to ever come out of the underground.
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All Music
Within and Without will satisfy your needs in that regard, and only those looking for memorable songs or fresh sounds will feel let down.
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Faronheit
To me, this record is the sonic equivalent of swimming underwater in a crystal clear pool on a sunny day. If that doesn’t seem like an amazing idea to you, then maybe this album or Washed Out in general just won’t click in the proper way.
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Contact Music
Somebody once said that the meek will inherit the earth, and Ernest Greene and friends may be what they're playing the day it happens.
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Pop Matters
Within and Without is a pretty lush and orchestrated album, and it seems otherworldly and existing in its own place in the musical stratosphere.
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Giant Bomb
Within and Without mostly induces those five minute naps on the train where your head slowly lowers to your chest before snapping right back up.
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Fuzzy Logic
I suspect it won't be long before there's even more Washed Out on the airwaves, bringing the good word of Ernest Greene to the masses. And, as with the work of Oscar Wilde, the world shall then be a better place.
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Luddite Stereo
Within and Without is by no means a bad record; it’s pleasant-sounding, fantastic for the beach, and, not surprisingly, easy to listen to with a buzz on. But it feels more like a Xerox of a Xerox than anything else.
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Obscure Sound
For fans of Washed Out it is hard to imagine being unsatisfied.
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Paste Magazine
Occasionally drastic steps in new directions.
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Reviler
This album is sleepy. Not boring, but ultra dream-like and relaxed.
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Tuneskies
The effortless quality can rub listeners the wrong way, but like the best ambient music it allows the listener to imprint themselves upon it, making Greene’s personal lyrics ring true in both directions.
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Writesleft
The chill-wave scene became overcrowded quickly, but Atlanta’s Washed Out (alias of Ernest Greene) has developed a unique sound that isn’t so repetitive.
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DIY Mag
A perfectly crafted album that sounds exactly like we hoped it would.
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The Atlantic
A Musical Fad Becomes Musical Force on Washed Out's 'Within and Without'.
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