Washed Out – Time to Walk Away

Washed Out is Atlanta-based producer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ernest Greene. Voor dit 4e album is Ernest terug bij de Sub Pop familie. Purple Noon is geschreven, opgenomen en geproduceerd door Greene zelf, de mixen zijn verzorgd door frequent samenwerkingspartner Ben H. Allen (Paracosm, Within and Without). Op de productie van het album volgde een korte periode van schrijven voor andere artiesten (met name met Sudan Archives op haar debuut Athena), waardoor Greene voor het eerst genres als R & B en moderne pop kon verkennen. Deze helderdere, robuustere geluiden vonden hun weg naar de nummers van Purple Noon en markeren een nieuw hoofdstuk in de groei van Greene, zowel als producer als songwriter.

De kusten van de Middellandse Zee inspireren Purple Noon en Greene was al maanden aan het plannen een videoclip voor de single Too Late op te nemen. “My inspiration was a Mediterranean sunset I saw late last year, and the plan was to shoot on the coast of Italy with a team of UK and European collaborators. As we got closer to the shoot date, word about the severity and the speed of the virus started becoming daily news, and it became clear it wasn’t going to happen the way we’d planned. We tried to move the shoot several times (to Malta, Croatia, Spain, and eventually the UK), and one after another, countries shut their borders. Seeing Italy hit so hard was especially difficult to see.

I put up an IG post asking for fans to help me come up with the raw footage I had in mind – those first few days, as I was going through photos of my trips and tours, the memories of traveling and experiences I’d had took on a new significance. I wanted the video to capture those same moments for other people in their lives, and give us all an excuse to remember what it’ll look like again when it passes.

 

I went in thinking if I got 100 clips, I’d have enough to make the video I wanted to make. 30 minutes in, I had the 100 clips, and a few days in, I had over 1,200 clips – from London, Bali, Okinawa, Ann Arbor, Dubrovnik and a few hundred other places around the world. It was pretty amazing for me to see the vids and pics flood in like they did.”

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