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 glitchy reverie that combines dream pop 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.”

On the album, she writes “Every album that I make ends up being this very transformative process. Living your life as art; living as an artist. It’s showing up in those mundane moments. You notice something around and you’re like I wanna tell this story.”

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. Released last month alongside a profile with The FADER, the song was praised by Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Alt Press, Paste Magazine, Boston Globe and many more. 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. Watch the videos below, including the short film that accompanies “Hide-A-Lullably” featuring Winter and several visual artists discussing their process.

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.

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