WASHED OUT - WITHIN AND WITHOUT (SUBPOP)
Oh how expectations can be denied! It’s a cruel situation - anticipation of music is a rare thing in this day and age and Washed Out’s EPs showed such promise. Here , half washed out sounds and uncomfortably unresolved melodic passages plonk alongside one dimensional drum patterns. The big issue is in the lack of ‘washing out’…that simple lo-fI saturation is gone.
If the album cover represents the music, then indeed this is missionary - nothing that you’ll rush back to, but maybe just enough to get your rocks off just this one. You won’t even stay till morning.
