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Washed Out - “Get Up”
With Fall officially here and the daily highs down into the 70s for the first time in months, it’s about time for me to start transitioning away my summer jams in favor of slower, folkier, more autumnal tunes.
Although musically similar to Neon Indian or Cut/Copy, Washed Out’s first EP, Life of Leisure, has a good nighttime vibe that both recalls Summer while hinting at Fall, making it a perfect transitional album. “Get Up” is the lead off track and feels more like summer than most of the album. The song’s funky, shifting, out-of-sync synths may be trippy or off-putting at first, but I quickly found they kept me coming back to the song just so I could hear them again.
