Lou Barlow Quotes

R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.

I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

I'm definitely a cult artist.

If you go back and listen to the album 'Name' was on, there were a lot of garage songs on it.

I remember when I first saw 'Guided by Voices'; those earlier recordings are so deconstructed, kind of like four-track music, and so artful in their collage and in their weird fragility.

Eric's Trip is still a huge influence on me. The style of those recordings and the rawness of them is very inspiring. And the density of the distorted parts, amazing.

We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes.

Ween is in my top five and have always been a huge inspiration.

I was always heavily interested in underground musical movements, the post-dubstep scene; Mount Kimbie were coming out, and bands like that.

I enjoy independent music, even more than Bollywood.

If I wanted to make big, bombastic, distorted, echo-y, trippy music, the atmospheric stuff, a studio is nice. But it's nice to know that it's not necessary.

Diane Cluck is part of the anti-folk movement in New York. She's got a really haunting voice, and she usually sings in the pentatonic scale.

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

The folk that you get on Radio 1 isn't the sort of thing that I'm into: it's kind of too uptempo and jaunty for me. I prefer a bit of atmosphere and a bit of darkness.

I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.

My music isn't mainstream music.

I listened to Kanye West and also dove deep into bands like Radiohead, Portishead, and Bon Iver.

I don't know if Kim Gordon does collaborations but I'd love to work with her on something one day.

Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.

Fela Kuti blew my mind. His playing is very unorthodox, but I learned how to appreciate that.

I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all of it. But my thing, the thing that comes most natural to me, is making the stuff that has a melody; it has a soul to it, yet it's head music.

I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.

I got into Nirvana, and it was my sort of awakening into the idea that music could be like rough and crazy and local. And so I started to realize that there were bands playing in my town, Anacortes.