Washed Out – the group’s creative force, Ernest Greene – has released their fifth and most audacious album to date, Notes From a Quiet Life, worldwide from Sub Pop. The music of Washed Out has always levitated over a timeless frontier. You can sense it in his immersive, amorphous vocals, expansive soundscapes, and wistful storytelling.
Today, Washed Out has shared a one-take, live performance of “Wait on You,” which was filmed on location in Bandera, Texas, and directed by Jonah Haber, who captured the inimitable footage of Greene performing “Waking Up (Solar Eclipse Performance.)”
Click here to watch.
In 2021, Greene left Atlanta to return to the countryside he knew growing up. Where escapism once flooded his thoughts, today, he is preoccupied with the universe of wonder in the reality around him.
He named the former horse farm he moved to “Endymion” (after the pastoral John Keats poem about a lovesick shepherd — its opening line: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”). It has shaped all that he’s created there, from his music to his albums’ creative direction to his planned large-scale visual-art experiments. That purity of vision is what makes Notes From a Quiet Life so potent. It’s the first album Greene wholly self-produced, with mixing assistance from Nathan Boddy (James Blake, Mura Masa) and David Wrench (Caribou, Florence + the Machine.)
Additionally, Washed Out has expanded its North American run, with newly announced dates in October & November. See below for a full list of shows.
Sun. Jul. 14 – Seattle, WA – Day In Day Out Festival
Thu. Aug. 01 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
Fri. Aug. 02 – Columbia, SC – The Senate
Sat. Aug. 03 – Asheville, NC – AVLFest
Mon. Aug. 05 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl
Tue. Aug. 06 – St. Louis, MO, Delmar Hall
Thu. Aug. 08 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
Fri. Aug. 09 – Chicago, IL – Metro
Sat. Aug. 10 – Madison, WI – Majestic
Sun. Aug. 11 – Columbus, OH – Kemba
Tue. Aug. 13 – Detroit, MI – Majestic
Wed. Aug.14 – Toronto, ON – Danforth
Fri. Aug. 16 – Norwalk, CT – District Music Hall
Sat. Aug. 17 – Boston, MA – Paradise
Sun. Aug. 18 – Brooklyn, NY – Paramount
Tue. Aug. 20 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
Wed. Aug. 21 – Washington, DC – 930 Club
Fri. Aug. 23 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
Sat. Aug. 24 – Birmingham, AL – Iron City
Thu. Oct. 31 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live
Fri. Nov. 01 – Dallas, TX – Longhorn Ballroom
Sat. Nov. 02 – Austin, TX – Levitation (Far Out Lounge)
Mon. Nov. 04 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
Tue. Nov. 05 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
Thu. Nov. 07 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
Sat. Nov. 09 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theater
Mon. Nov. 11 – Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades
Tues. Nov. 12 – San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom
Thu. Nov. 13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Bellwether
Fri. Nov. 15 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory
Sat. Nov. 16 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
Sun. Nov. 17 – El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace
Tues. Nov. 19 – Oklahoma City, OK – Tower Theater
Wed. Nov. 20 – Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall
Fri. Nov. 22 – New Orleans, LA – Joy Theater