Winter – Adult Romantix
Today, Winter has released her highly anticipated new album, Adult Romantix, out now via her new label home Winspear.
Alongside the album release she’s shared a visual for highlight “Sometimes I Think About Death,” a glitch reverie that combines dreampop and garage beats.
“This song was written during the same time I was writing songs off of my last EP ‘…and she’s still listening,’” says Samira Winter, “I was really inspired by trip hop, electronica and leaned into that experimentation of combining distorted guitars, pitched down vocals over breakbeats. Thematically it’s a contemplation about our own mortality as we live out our day to day lives.”
Chronicling an emotional coast-to-coast move, she spent roughly two years writing songs in a transitory state: often in between tours, in different cities, and in various sublets. The follow-up to 2022’s landmark What Kind of Blue Are You?, and a goodbye love letter to her time in L.A., Winter describes Adult Romantix as “a tunnel of summers and memories,” inspired by romantic-period texts like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, as well as ‘90s rom-coms—indulging in heady melodrama and romantic and platonic longing, while also embracing a lighthearted, youthful innocence. The album was recorded and produced with longtime collaborator Joo Joo Ashworth (SASAMI, Corridor, Automatic) and mixed by Henry Stoehr (Slow Pulp).
Following a delicate, jangly intro, the album’s motor kicks into full gear with lead single “Just Like A Flower,” which merges Sarah Records sweetness with an all-out, whammy-heavy, Dinosaur Jr.-esque attack.
The announce was followed by the haunting single “Misery,” which features Horse Jumper of Love’s Dimitri Giannopoulos, “Without You,” which harkens back to Samira Winter’s roots in Brazil, incorporating Portuguese lyrics throughout the verse, and the recent “Hide-A-Lullaby”, an intoxicating shoegaze track featuring Tanukichan.
The singer-songwriter and guitarist has been a mainstay in Los Angeles’ music scene for over a decade, carving out her own niche of gloriously detailed and eclectic dream pop under the name Winter. After growing up in Curitiba, Brazil and playing in her first bands in Boston, she relocated to Los Angeles in 2013 and fell in love with the city. She found a sense of belonging in its DIY rock community—the basement of her longtime Echo Park home was host to countless shows and even Winter’s first practices—and she grew attached to L.A.’s cosmic, inspiring aura. But at a certain point, Samira was craving a change of scenery to facilitate self-growth, a painful, but necessary realization that brought about a move to New York City.
2022’s What Kind of Blue Are You? was, in her words, “a total reset”—a dark, healing, and intensely personal record that cemented Winter’s unique musical language. As Samira began to confront the end of her decade-plus in L.A., she was overcome by waves of memories and nostalgia, which stirred feelings of pure-hearted reverence for her 20s—catching shows at The Echo, driving through Southern California, and soaking in the blistering sun for so long you start to feel an, existential, impending sense of doom. So, instead of exorcising inner demons, for Adult Romantix, Samira visited the ghosts of heartfelt memories, which had spilled into her present reality.
Winter will embark on a Fall headline tour with support from A Country Western & Hooky (whom she just released a collaborative EP with). Just announced, she will join Water From Your Eyes in Austin and Dallas, before heading to the UK & Europe for a run of headline dates and appearance at Pitchfork London. Additional dates with Hotline TNT, Teethe, and Mamalarky on-sale now.
09/27 – Boston, MA @ Warehouse *
09/28 – Troy, NY @ No Fun *
09/30 – Toronto, ON @ Garrison *
10/01 – Detroit, MI @ Lager House *
10/03 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas *
10/04 – Milwaukee, WI @ X Ray *
10/05 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry *
10/07 – Denver, CO @ Lost Lake +
10/09 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court +
10/11 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza +
10/12 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi +
10/14 – San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord +
10/16 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo +
10/17 – San Diego, CA @ Voodoo Room +
10/18 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar +
10/21 – Austin TX @ Parish #
10/22 – Dallas, TX @ Dada #
10/24 – Atlanta, GA @ Altar Masquerade
10/25 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle Back Room
10/26 – Washington, DC @ DC9 +
10/28 – Philadelphia, PA @ Warehouse on Watts +
10/30 – New York, NY @ Zone One +
11/05 – Groningen, NL @ Vera~
11/08 – London, UK @ Pitchfork Music Festival
11/09 – Sheffield, UK @ Delicious Clam
11/10 – Manchester, UK @ YES Basement
11/1 – London, UK @ Moth Club
11/12 – Margate, UK @ Where Else?
11/15 – Zurich, CH @ Bogen F @
11/16 – Bern, CH @ Reitschule @
11/17 – Paris, FR @ Supersonic
11/18 – Amsterdam, NL @ Doka
11/19 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique
11/20 – Berlin, DE @ Nue Zukunft
* A Country Western
+ Hooky
# Water From Your Eyes
~Hotline TNT
^Teethe
@Mamalarky
#daydreamingwinter