“Feel it All Around” by Washed Out

"Feel It All Around" first surfaced in 2009 and was the song that broke Washed Out, turning up later that year on Life of Leisure, his debut EP, and getting a vinyl release. He wrote, recorded and produced it himself, and it rides a sample of "I Want You", a 1983 track by the Italian singer Gary Low, wrapped in a warm, sun-bleached haze that plays like a summer half-remembered.

It soon came to be treated as the definitive chillwave track, the one that drew up the template the rest of the genre followed. Pitchfork crowned it Best New Track, then placed it 10th among the year's songs, NME put it at 36, and it found a far wider audience as the opening theme of Portlandia, the surreal comedy series that ran from 2011 to 2018.

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