Out My Window
Download links and information about Out My Window by Koushik. This album was released in 2008 and it belongs to Breakbeat , Electronica, Rock, Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop genres. It contains 16 tracks with total duration of 46:29 minutes.
Artist: | Koushik |
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Release date: | 2008 |
Genre: | Breakbeat , Electronica, Rock, Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop |
Tracks: | 16 |
Duration: | 46:29 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Morning Comes | 2:24 |
2. | Be With | 4:11 |
3. | Lying In the Sun | 3:38 |
4. | Coolin | 3:23 |
5. | Buttaflybeat | 1:01 |
6. | See You | 2:56 |
7. | Nothing's the Same | 3:16 |
8. | Welcome | 1:10 |
9. | Corner of Your Smile | 4:12 |
10. | In a Green Space | 3:45 |
11. | Ifoundu | 3:15 |
12. | Outerlude | 0:32 |
13. | Bright and Shining | 3:58 |
14. | Forest Loop | 1:09 |
15. | Out My Window | 4:19 |
16. | Floating On | 3:20 |
Details
[Edit]Koushik's first album was a collection of EPs, and while it worked well as an introduction, it fell short as an album. Not so with the follow-up: 2008's Out My Window is an enveloping hug of blissed-out melodies, gentle beats, hushed vocals, and carefully constructed musical backdrops that casts a spell of peaceful harmony that is difficult to shake. Not that you'd want to. Koushik weaves together a wide range of influences (hip-hop, '60s psychedelia and sunshine pop, early-'70s singer/songwriters, the tripped-out jazz of the late '60s, shoegaze, and trip-hop, to name the main sources) over the course of the album, and often within individual songs, to come up with his sound. It never lapses into simple mimicry or pastiche, though; Koushik is a master at making something new out of all the parts he liberates from the past. He deftly chops, mixes, and blends great clouds of reverbed sound — the chiming guitars, the lightly skittering drums, the warbling flutes and subtle horns — but also doesn't forget to write songs with some hazy, lazy soul at their center. A song like "In a Green Space" is a fine achievement based on sound alone, coming off like a David Axelrod-produced session for the Millennium, but Koushik's quietly insistent vocals give it some emotional punch. There are more examples of well-crafted songs (the insanely joyful "Lying in the Sun" for one) that capture real feelings, but the most impressive aspect of Out My Window is the dreamy, sun-kissed mood the album conjures up from the first note to the final fade. Koushik has a few contemporaries doing something similar (Nobody, Four Tet, Caribou), but apart from Caribou's Andorra, none of them has come up with an album as good overall as Out My Window.