Within and Without (album)

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Within and Without
Washed Out - Within and Without.png
Studio album by
Washed Out
ReleasedJuly 6, 2011 (2011-07-06)
Genre
Length40:43
Label Sub Pop
Producer
  • Ben H. Allen
  • Ernest Greene
Washed Out chronology
Life of Leisure
(2009)		Within and Without
(2011)		 Paracosm
(2013)

Within and Without is the debut studio album by American singer Washed Out, released on July 6, 2011 by Sub Pop. The album debuted at number 26 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 15,000 copies, and by July 2013, it had sold 89,000 copies in the United States. [3]

Contents

Artwork

The cover for Within and Without uses an image that also appeared in the May 2011 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, accompanying an article titled "Is This the Most Satisfying Sex Position?". [4] Washed Out told Exclaim! , "We licensed the image from the photographer Martien Mulder from New York. I had seen the image in this avant-garde photography magazine while we were on tour in Australia and it was just an ad for one of her exhibitions. I loved it for a lot of different reasons. When we licensed it we thought we had exclusive rights to it and then a month later she licensed it again to Cosmopolitan." He also stated he was disappointed to see the photo used in an article on sexual positions, "mainly because it undercut all of my ideas about what the image represented and what the album represented", as he felt "it wasn't sexual at all and it wasn't supposed to be provocative." [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 6.9/10 [6]
Metacritic 70/100 [7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The A.V. Club B [8]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
The Irish Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
NME 5/10 [11]
Pitchfork 8.3/10 [1]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Spin 9/10 [15]

Within and Without received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 70, based on 34 reviews. [7]

Kevin Liedel of Slant Magazine praised its juxtaposition of "warm, decades-old retrograde styles with the despondent, isolated, and decidedly modern mood of [Ernest] Greene's alienated narratives ... Melodies and instrumentation are infused with sunny, tender basslines and mellow synths that harken back to soft, '70s-era R&B rhythms, electrified '80s pop, and synth-heavy shoegaze, while Greene's muffled vocals and haunting atmospherics provide angst-ridden counterpoints." [14] Brandon Soderberg of Pitchfork noted the album's improved production values compared to Greene's previous output, and called it a "declaration to snarky ironists that there is nothing to be ashamed of" about the chillwave genre. [1]

However, Paul Lester of BBC Music gave the album a mixed review, stating: "The rhythm is repetitive but sounds played rather than sequenced, offering the idea that Within and Without is less synthetic, more 'real', an unnecessary development considering how moving those early Washed Out tunes were, while production-wise the new material is actually a less punchy version of Greene's pristine melancholia, more waffly and wan." [16]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ernest Greene, except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Eyes Be Closed"4:47
2."Echoes"4:08
3."Amor Fati"4:26
4."Soft"5:31
5."Far Away"4:00
6."Before"4:46
7."You and I" (featuring Caroline Polachek; writers: Greene, Polachek)5:13
8."Within and Without"3:32
9."A Dedication"4:17
Total length:40:40
iTunes Store bonus track [17]
No.TitleLength
10."Call It Off"3:32
Total length:49:41
Japanese edition bonus tracks [18]
No.TitleLength
10."Eyes Be Closed" (Alex Version)3:26
11."Step Back"2:38
Total length:54:48
Japanese iTunes Store bonus tracks [19]
No.TitleLength
10."Eyes Be Closed" (Alex Version)3:26
11."Step Back"2:38
12."Olivia"2:29
13."Luck"2:16
Total length:51:29
Australian edition bonus tracks [20]
No.TitleLength
10."Olivia"2:27
11."Call It Off"3:32
Total length:46:39

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Within and Without. [21]

Charts

Chart (2011)Peak
position
Australian Hitseekers Albums (ARIA) [22] 20
Belgian Heatseekers Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [23] 1
Belgian Heatseekers Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [24] 2
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [25] 80
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [26] 36
UK Albums (OCC) [27] 89
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [28] 12
US Billboard 200 [29] 26
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [30] 5
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [31] 6
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [32] 6

Release history

RegionDateLabelRef.
JapanJuly 6, 2011Yoshimoto R and C [18]
GermanyJuly 8, 2011 Domino [33]
United KingdomJuly 11, 2011Weird World [34]
United StatesJuly 12, 2011 Sub Pop [35]
AustraliaJuly 29, 2011Pod [20]

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