The Horrors @ St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Melbourne, Feb 4

The Horrors @ The Forum, Melbourne, Feb 3

OFWGKTA @ Big Day Out, Melbourne, Jan 29

Röyksopp @ Big Day Out, Melbourne, Jan 29

Ernest Greene - aka Washed Out – makes music that sounds exactly like his stage name suggests: it’s wispy, dreamy and free flowing, so it should come as little surprise that it’s been tagged as part of the so called `chillwave’ movement. Greene started working on his brand of ambient synthpop a couple of years ago and got his first real break when songs he recorded in his own bedroom studio were discovered by influential music bloggers on MySpace (remember that thing before Facecrack?). Fuelled by the exposure of the interwebz, the chillwave prodigy compiled the songs he had posted online into a series of EPs before releasing his debut LP, Within and Without, last year. With its raunchy cover artwork, the album is full of swirling synths, Greene’s evocative voice and waves of electronica that swell up and wash over the listener. Those heading along to Laneway can prepare to be swept up in all Greene’s synth-y goodness when he closes the Windish Agency Stage.

Washed Out plays the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival over the coming weeks