Notes From A Quiet Life (Honeydew Vinyl)

The music of Washed Out has always levitated over a timeless frontier. ‘Notes from a Quiet Life’ is Washed Out’s fifth album. You can sense it in his immersive, amorphous vocals, the expansive soundscapes, the wistful storytelling. It’s a sweet spot where, says its creative force, Ernest Greene, “any sort of association or memory from the past can transport you instantly. I love that.”

Ernest Greene’s list of influences for ‘Notes from a Quiet Life’ are mostly sculpture icons: minimalist legend Donald Judd, abstract expressionist Cy Twombly, and modernists Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Of the latter, he observes, “The majority of his working life was spent on his country estate, and he wasn’t living a cosmopolitan lifestyle. He was focused on just making good work, you know?”