“Eyes Be Closed” by Washed Out

"Eyes Be Closed" comes from Within and Without, the debut album by the American singer Washed Out, released by Sub Pop on July 6, 2011, and Washed Out holds the whole writing credit, music and words. The record got off to a solid start, opening at 26 on the Billboard 200.

Its sleeve came with a story of its own. Washed Out licensed the photograph from the New York photographer Martien Mulder after spotting it, as an ad for one of her exhibitions, in an avant-garde photo magazine while on tour in Australia, believing the rights were his alone. A month later the same picture turned up in Cosmopolitan beside an article about sex positions, which let him down, since to him the image had nothing sexual about it and was never meant to provoke.

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