★★★★★
Ernest Greene seems like a pretty happy guy. He's married, never felt the need to leave Georgia, and he's signed to Sub Pop. Washed Out doesn't need to prove much to anyone anymore, and maybe that's why
- www.austinchronicle.com
2013-11-07
★★★★★
Chillwave is fast becoming the 21st-century equivalent of shoegaze - a genre that was briefly ball-achingly cool before becoming maligned almost overnight with a load of divergent acts lumped under the banner and pelted with verbal stones. It's hard not to feel some degree of sympathy with Georgia's Ernest Greene, aka Washed Out, who was put forward as the poster boy of the chillwave scene and dismissed by many as a classic case of style over substance - music for American Apparel...
- thequietus.com
2013-09-06
★★★★★
Bad news first: this album will not force you to make-out with every person you see on the street. That could be good news for some, but unlike the debut album, Within and Without, Paracosm isn't exactly meant for sexy time. There's also not a Feel It All Around level of intensity with any single track. This is a classic case of 'the same but different'. The good news is Ernest Greene appears to have a bigger picture this time...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-08-20
★★★★★
I had a rather large piece of broccoli tattooed on my forearm the other day, and it was miserafuckingble. I tried everything to put my mind at ease initially, from playing Candy Crush, to browsing Instagram, to reading about the shit going down in Egypt. Absolutely nothing helped rinse the hypersensitive anxiety I was simmering in. But thankfully I was offered the run of the radio during my intentional torture...
- www.syffal.com
2013-08-20
★★★★★
"Leave it all and start again," sings Ernest Greene/Washed Out on "Weightless", one of the many standouts on , his second album for the Sub Pop label. The sentiment Greene expresses is telling: the jury may still be out on whether chillwave actually constitutes a distinct genre, but if there ever was a record that gave form to the term's defining characteristics, it was the American's now-seminal debut, ...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2013-08-15
★★★★★
Ernest Greene's latest album opens to field recordings of twittering birds in a rainforest, inviting us into a dreamy imaginary world. Considering his 2011 debut Without And Within was readymade to listen to on headphones by the pool at a tropical resort, it's pretty much business as usual on Paracosm...
- www.beat.com.au
2013-08-13
★★★★★
Tweet No Sophomore Slump Here Washed Out, also known as the Georgian musician Ernest Greene, chose an apt title for his sophomore album Paracosm, out this week. A paracosm is a complex imaginary, fantasy world, populated by humans, animals, or other creatures--think Middle Earth or Narnia, but not necessarily with the nefarious evil wizards or monsters. On Paracosm, Washed Out invites you to step into a carefully concocted technicolor dream world. The album begins appropriately with "Entrance...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-08-14
★★★★★
Shortly after his first release as Washed Out, Ernest Greene became something of a poster child for chillwave, or even the culture of urban millennials in general--a distinction that became inevitable when one of his songs was used to soundtrack the opening credits of Portlandia. However, as an emissary of a culture that drops trends as quickly as it embraces them, he's had a surprising amount of staying power, something he's maintained largely by iterating upon and refining what he's done...
- www.avclub.com
2013-08-13
★★★★★
Ernest Greene's second album opens with the very un-synthetic sound of birds chirping. Heavy-handed point made: The chillwave pioneer has woken up and gone organic on Paracosm, trading the sexy wooze-outs of his 2011 debut for slightly brighter, more pastoral vibes. Greene's meticulous creations are still slow-rolling and thickly layered, but this time he and returning Animal Collective producer Ben Allen slather on less futuristic sounds: Mellotron, bongos, children laughing...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-08-14
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