The project of Atlanta-based songwriter and producer Ernest Greene, Washed Out artfully matches the glossy melody of ’80s synth pop, the widescreen scope of early ’90s Balearic dance music and the slowed, heavy bounce of Southern hip hop production to gorgeously wistful vocals. The results—which can be heard on Washed Out’s debut LP Within and Without—are as undeniably idiosyncratic and original as they are deeply accessible.
