So very infatuated with this album.

For an artist at the forefront of the post-shoegazing movement called chillwave (presumably after a lengthy struggle to come up with a worse name for a genre than shoegazing), Greene’s synth-heavy music has less to do with Slowdive than It’s My Life-era Talk Talk: what Within and Without most recalls is something taped off the radio in 1984, songs glimpsed through layers of medium wave interference and tape hiss. MySpace is awash with people doing something similar, but they don’t have Greene’s songwriting skills: what emerges on Eyes Be Closed and Far Away isn’t wafty mood music, but something lithe and sensual, as befits an album whose sleeve features a couple snapped midway using a bed for a purpose other than sleeping.

Washed Out’s Within and Without was finally released the other day. Get the album here with bonus mix CD.