When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture. Washed Out Read Quote
Where I grew up in the middle of Georgia, hip-hop is king, and on Friday and Saturday nights, local DJs do mixes. It’s a great mix of local stuff and then some of the bigger hits and remixes of the hits, and it just has this nice flow with a dirty-South sound to everything. Washed Out Read Quote
It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing. Washed Out Read Quote
I’m without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they’re more stream-of-consciousness. It’s very rare that I’m going to tell a really concrete story. Washed Out Read Quote
Honestly, I’ve just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don’t feel I’m a very good collaborator. Washed Out Read Quote
The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective. Washed Out Read Quote
There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there. Washed Out Read Quote
