Paracosm by Washed Out

Paracosm, Washed Out's second album, arrived on Sub Pop on August 7, 2013. Ernest Greene, the bedroom producer Pitchfork crowned the Godfather of Chillwave after "Feel It All Around" became the genre's blueprint, co-produced it with Ben H. Allen at Maze Studios in Atlanta, and the move out of the bedroom shows.

This is a bigger, sunnier, more spacious record: synths and voices dissolving into one warm, gauzy wash, built for lying in the grass with your eyes shut rather than for the dance floor. Greene's dream-pop instincts are all still there, just given more room to drift. "It All Feels Right" went out first as the lead single in June, and the album drew mostly warm notices, bowing at 21 on the Billboard 200 on 13,000 copies in its first week. "All I Know" is the one that has kept turning up on the countdowns since.

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