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Feel It All Around

The July 2009 song that defined chillwave, the Portlandia theme, built on a sample of Gary Low's "I Want You".
Washed Out, from Life of Leisure (2009)

Greene wrote and produced "Feel It All Around" himself and put it out as a self-released single in July 2009 with no label, before it was on the Life of Leisure EP; it runs 3:12 as a single and 3:16 on the EP. It samples "I Want You" (1983) by the Italian singer Gary Low, credited on Wikipedia's page for the song; a search summary says it was slowed to about 87 beats per minute, which we did not verify. Stereogum's Brandon Stosuy wrote on July 22, 2009 of its woozy ambiance and noted that its fade means it vanishes before you settle in.

Pitchfork named it a Best New Track and the tenth best song of 2009, NME ranked it 36th of the year and Vice called it the most popular chillwave song. It is certified platinum by the RIAA, reached 13 on Billboard's Mexico airplay chart in 2010, and was the opening theme of Portlandia from 2011 to 2018. Wikipedia calls it generally regarded as the definitive chillwave track. At Brooklyn Steel on August 29, 2017 it was fifteenth in the set, and at Delmar Hall on August 6, 2024, eleventh. We did not find a setlist.fm count, and our upload is listed under the EP's name.

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Sources

  1. Feel It All Around, Wikipedia
  2. New Washed Out: Feel It All Around, Stereogum (2009-07-22)
  3. How Washed Out became the poster boy of chillwave, Creative Loafing (2010)