SEVEN NOISES

There's no way that I'm going to introduce you to Washed Out. Last year's Life Of Leisure EP, High Times tape and Feel It All Around single were commented all over the place, even months before their release.
On the other side, Small Black, after putting out their first single Despicable Dogs and their first untitled EP, are starting to get their own cult now, even more taking into consideration that two of their live members are Pitchfork contributors.
That's why the release of this split single next Tuesday 26th where each band remixes a track of the other is a must have. It's been on pre-order for weeks at Lovepump United and, although they don't mention how many copies are available, they still accept orders. Anyway, if you live in the UK, they will soon have some copies at Pure Groove. The Washed Out remix of Despicable Dogs transforms the song into a melancholic spacey italo-influenced track, that's to say, into a Washed Out song. Haven't heard the Small Black take on Washed Out's You'll See It yet, so waiting impatiently to receive my copy.

As it happened before this year, we are again in front of a project that has been growing the attention of the public through blogging before any physical release has been put out, to the point Washed Out is one of the most commented artists online thanks in part to the permanent coverage and attention of Pitchfork, Stereogum and all the kings of music online that, we have to say, are the ones who own and decide the development of music these days (and I don't say this with any kind of bitterness as they made us discover many good bands we could never have the possibility to know).
Washed out, another one-man-project, is Ernest Greene, a guy from Georgia who creates a strangely original music that takes many influences from synth pop, balearic beats, italo-disco and dub and transforms it with a dream-pop lo-fi production that generates a sound that makes you feel like you forgot his tape inside the car, under the sun, and then tried to play it in a mono walkman you bought on sale about to run out of batteries. If this happened to you during the 80s, you know what I mean. If not, and you didn't get the image, just listen to the tracks and maybe you will get it then. Life of Leisure, his first EP, has been out for a month digitally only, and will have a proper physical release in October while, High Times will be out next Tuesday the 15Th on cassette only through Mirror Universe but they promise they will post it as a download once they run out of the 200 tapes, which I calculate will be before lunch time. Here you have a track for each release to make you an idea.