“I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.”

American singer, songwriter, and record producer

Ernest Weatherly Greene Jr., known professionally as Washed Out, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer associated with the rise of chillwave in the late 2000s. He is best known for his 2009 song "Feel It All Around," which helped define the sound of the genre. His music is commonly linked with bedroom pop, chillwave, dream pop, and synth-pop. "Feel It All Around" became a reference point for chillwave, and Pitchfork later called him the "Godfather of Chillwave" for that role in shaping its early sound.