Washed Out

The Creative Process

There’s no way I could describe Washed Out’s music better than the description on his Facebook page. Washed Out is Ernest Greene, a young guy from Georgia (via South Carolina) who makes bedroom synthpop that sounds blurred and woozily evocative, like someone smeared Vaseline all over an early OMD demo tape, then stayed up all night trying to recreate what they heard. I spoke to Ernest about the irony of creating flawed, human music with computers and why it is important to him to continue to progress and develop as an artist.