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9.0
28677
9.0 |
musicOMH
An album stuffed to the brim with pop songs, all shrouded in reverb, all carrying a message of escapism and all ridiculously catchy
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9.0
28679
9.0 |
Spin
He even invigorates '90s trip-hop's head-nod ... making for an even better coast soundtrack
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9.0
29620
9.0 |
Prefix
It is not a sea-change or a rehash, but a projection of a sound, and an idea, on to a much larger scale
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8.3
29243
8.3 |
Pitchfork
A sly, solid release that can fade into the background but has the ability to jump out and take hold of your ears
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8.0
29253
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
This is subtle music, and begs to be held close to the vest
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8.0
29265
8.0 |
Under The Radar
A fine record full of sleepy bedroom pop music
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8.0
29287
8.0 |
DIY
Greene has given us a perfectly crafted album that sounds exactly like we hoped it would
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8.0
29743
8.0 |
Mojo
Greene has a timeless touch that singles him out. Print edition only
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8.0
29371
8.0 |
Blurt
This is not just another sterile bedroom disco experiment, far from it
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8.0
29176
8.0 |
Entertainment.ie
Its nine songs are drenched in synth and are infused with a pleasant sense of drowsiness, as if they've been left out in the sun for too long
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8.0
29184
8.0 |
The Guardian
What Within and Without most recalls is something taped off the radio in 1984, songs glimpsed through layers of medium wave interference and tape hiss
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8.0
29187
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Producer Ben Allen warrants a mention (he did similar spadework for Animal Collective on Merriweather Post Pavilion ) but the success of this is primarily down to Greene’s new slant on what he does
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8.0
29200
8.0 |
The Fly
At points, the album gets so blissed-out and buoyant that it goes, dare we say it, a bit Moby. If you can get past that comparison, ‘Within And Without’ is a remarkable album
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8.0
28795
8.0 |
Q
It's an antidote to soulless over-produced dance music. Print edition only
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8.0
29088
8.0 |
Clash
The sound of bliss
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8.0
29115
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
A gorgeous clash between warm and cold, the familiar and the foreign, and perhaps most touching of all, wild-eyed innocence and world-weary disenchantment
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8.0
29131
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Even when Greene puts the most conventional structures known to pop music under his lens, a rose-tinted magic appears
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7.7
29321
7.7 |
Paste Magazine
Washed Out consistently sounds like actual thought was put behind its music, which can’t be said about a lot of its so-called peers
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7.5
29297
7.5 |
A.V. Club
The album’s freshly scrubbed beats bump insistently but gently against Greene’s gauzy vocals and the occasional string interlude
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7.5
29368
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
An album to be applauded, if not hailed
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7.1
29248
7.1 |
Beats Per Minute
Harbours some rich, emotive sounds under its monochrome canopy
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7.0
29244
7.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
More pleasant than arresting
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7.0
29345
7.0 |
The AU Review
Depending on my mood this album was either mesmerising or slightly boring and inaccessible
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7.0
29212
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Maybe one day chillwave will be more than blog-famous – but at the minute it seems as though it’s one man doing all the work
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7.0
29838
7.0 |
PopMatters
Within and Without isn’t all that bad of an affair, but it could have used a bit more variation in its reverb-heavy sound
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6.0
28747
6.0 |
The Skinny
Uniformly awash with programmed beats, keyboards, synthesisers and multi-tracked vocals
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6.0
29209
6.0 |
Evening Standard
A blurry, hazy sound that's pretty while fading too often into the background
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6.0
29170
6.0 |
State
A silky,sexily-crafted but ultimately vacant screensaver for beachside navel gazing of the Pitchfork variety
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6.0
28925
6.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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6.0
29042
6.0 |
BBC
With the same torpid tempo throughout, Within and Without is an invitation to soporific surrender, and strikes a sombre, samey mood
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6.0
29316
6.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
The listener is teased and tantalised but never fulfilled
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6.0
29235
6.0 |
The Observer
His newly expanded band is altogether less funky than its predecessor and instead favours a warm, Balearic wistfulness
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5.5
29171
5.5 |
Bowlegs
There is a delicate sensibility to Washed Out’s character, but on this outing it is struggling to make itself heard
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5.0
29069
5.0 |
BBC
This is just too pallid, too washed-out
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5.0
29264
5.0 |
NME
Hangs oppressively, saved only by fleeting moments of clarity like the title track’s stabbing outro, or the jump-rope glitter that opens ‘Before’
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4.0
29291
4.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
It’s too safe to be truly daring and adventurous and ultimately only reaches a lackluster creative middle ground
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4.0
29536
4.0 |
The Digital Fix
Won't so much as chill you out, it'll just send you off to sleep
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4.0
29756
4.0 |
The Quietus
Flat, barely sentient fare
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4.0
29234
4.0 |
Independent on Sunday
An album you can hear without ever really noticing. Radox for the ears
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4.0
34601
4.0 |
No Ripcord
There’s a significant lack of depth to Within and Without
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