Washed Out - Wait on You (Live Performance)

What this video is

Released June 28, 2024 as a same-day companion to Washed Out's fifth album 'Notes From a Quiet Life' (Sub Pop), this video embodies a broader 2020s trend of musicians rejecting high-production-value music videos in favor of stripped-back, single-location, one-take live documentation. Ernest Greene — dubbed 'Godfather of Chillwave' by Pitchfork — relocated from Atlanta to a rural Georgia horse farm called 'Endymion'…

Why it matters

Represents the mature, post-chillwave phase of Washed Out's career: where the hazy lo-fi bedroom-pop origins of 2009 have evolved into a refined pastoral electronic minimalism. The one-take live performance format, increasingly common among indie-electronic artists in the 2020s, here reaches a…

The director

Jonah Haber is a director known for collaborating with Washed Out (Ernest Greene) on visually ambitious, location-driven live performance videos. He directed both the 'Wait on You' one-take live performance (filmed in Bandera, Texas, June 2024) and the…