Washed Out - Don't Give Up

What this video is

Released in July 2013 as the second single from Washed Out's sophomore album Paracosm (Sub Pop, August 13, 2013), 'Don't Give Up' arrived as chillwave — the hazy, lo-fi synth-pop microgenre Greene helped define — was maturing into more polished, album-oriented indie electronic. The Paracosm era represented Greene's deliberate expansion beyond the bedroom-producer aesthetic of his debut, embracing orchestrated…

Why it matters

Represents a pivotal transitional document in the chillwave canon — bridging lo-fi bedroom pop origins with accessible, high-production-value indie electronic. The video's conceptual, no-human-subject approach was unusual for the genre and reinforced the album-as-immersive-world ambition of…

The director

Aries Moross (formerly known as Kate Moross) is a London-based creative director, illustrator, and designer. They began their career in 2007 illustrating flyers for London's independent music scene and founded Studio Moross in 2012, a multidisciplinary…