WINTER & TANUKICHAN Team Up for New Single "Hide-A-Lullaby"

WINTER SHARES NEW SINGLE & SHORT FILM “HIDE-A-LULLABY [feat. TANUKICHAN]” NEW ALBUM ADULT ROMANTIX  OUT AUGUST 22ND VIA WINSPEAR FALL US TOUR + NOVEMBER UK/EU TOUR ON-SALE

Winter & Tanukichan by David Milan Kelly

Praise for Winter: "Winter has been building intricate and enchanting dream-pop...she’s never made something as wistful-sounding as her new album" - The FADER “one of the most exciting artists within the new generation of shoegaze” - Spin "as infectious as it is dreamy" - Stereogum  “Winter’s fusion of dream pop and shoegaze sounds like it’s blooming from the lavish botanical gardens that dot Los Angeles” - i_D "a shimmering shoegaze fantasy worthy of soundtracking the next coming-of-age indie flick" - Boston Globe “emotionally revealing, musically beautiful, and verging on brilliant overall” - AllMusic “Breezy and fluid” - KCRW “achingly gorgeous dream pop” - KEXP “tasteful ’90s nostalgia” - Consequence “a nostalgia-heavy sound that could easily serve as your MySpace profile song” - Paste Magazine “infectiously cool..excellent songs..as the guitar haze lifts, the melodies stay with you" - Brooklyn Vegan “full of smoldering instrumental layers and ecstatic melodic beauty" - Under the Radar "a dreamy confection of fuzzy guitars, otherworldly vocals, and layered walls of sound" - Bust Today, Winter has shared “Hide-A-Lullaby", the final single from her highly anticipated new album, Adult Romantix, due out August 22nd via her new label home Winspear. The smoldering, gazey track features like-minded dreampop artist Tanukichan, who trades hushed lines with Samira Winter. The accompanying music video directed by David Milan Kelly features the band performing in the LA river, and narrative sections inspired by the album's fictional story of an indie rock romance set during a lost L.A. summer. The second half features documentary interviews with Winter and visual artists from her community discussing their process and inspiration. “The song explores themes of the inner self-sabotager, the secrets hidden in the corners of the mind, and the dark forest as a symbol for the subconscious,” shares Winter. “It was amazing to have Hannah van Loon (Tanukichan) sing this one with me—her velvety, whispery voice perfectly complements the song’s haunted, mysterious romantic imagery.” 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).  Like her previous record which featured collaborators and tour mates Hatchie & SASAMI, the new record features Horse Jumper of Love on the instant classic "Misery," Tanukichan on today’s “Hide-A-Lullaby” and Alex G's Samuel Acchione on the Grouper-esque "Running.” WATCH “HIDE-A-LULLABY [feat. TANUKICHAN]” OFFICIAL VIDEO & SHORT FILM

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.  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, and the recent  “Without You,” which harkens back to Samira Winter’s roots in Brazil, incorporating Portuguese lyrics throughout the verse. WATCH “MISERY,” “JUST LIKE A FLOWER,” & “WITHOUT YOU” OFFICIAL VIDEOS

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.  Tour Dates: TICKETS 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

Tracklist: 01 Just Like A Flower (intro) 02 Just Like A Flower 03 Misery 04 Hide-A-Lullaby 05 Existentialism 06 Sometimes I Think About Death 07 Like Lovers Do 08 Without You 09 In My Basement Room 10 The Beach 11 Candy #9 12 Running 13 Hollow For Adult Romantix, Samira channeled a textured, yearning indie rock sound that squared with her vision of “a lost L.A. summer”—a departure from the electronic experimentation of her 2024 EP …and she’s still listening, penned around the same time. While What Kind of Blue Are You? was inspired by ‘90s dream pop classics, Adult Romantix was influenced by touchstones like Sonic Youth’s Rather Ripped, the forlorn acoustic rock of Elliott Smith, the slippery electronic-rock of Dean Blunt, and California shoegaze à la Further and Starflyer 59. Marked by swirling, drive-pedal squalls and open-tuned acoustic guitar, there’s a palpable bittersweetness to these raw, lovesick tunes. Blurred daydreams and a sense of brooding introspection pervade the record—from dizzying tape echo and icy breakbeats to Samira’s androgynous, pitched-down, cigarette-glazed vocals. Vacillating between dewy, strummy ecstasy and moody, nighttime desire, Adult Romantix thrives on escapism, always delightfully in the clouds and often sonically peculiar.  Lyrically, Adult Romantix is a fascinating contrast between the high emotional stakes and divine romance of gothic literature, and the happy-go-lucky twee of indie-pop bands of yore. Couched near the unbothered bliss of lines like “Drunk and stoned / In my bed / Listening to ‘Fuck and Run’ / Since I was 12” (“Just Like A Flower”) are bold, impassioned declarations like “Love’s never gonna die” (“The Beach”). But for anyone who’s been through young adulthood, this push and pull won’t register as a contradiction, but rather a viscerally familiar encapsulation of the simultaneous bleeding-heart intensity and simpler nonchalance of one’s salad days. The real tension at the heart of the record is Samira’s attempt to reckon with the trappings of nostalgia. How does one engage with the transportive beauty of memories, while skirting the unhealthy urge to neglect your current reality and brood over alternate paths your life could have taken? For Samira, the answer isn’t so simple, but ultimately, Adult Romantix was a way to keep formative memories alive, and maybe not close a chapter, but put a pin in it. Saying goodbye to a place can be gut-wrenching. Various sights and haunts become sentient beings in our lives, coloring every aspect of our memories. Adult Romantix allowed Samira to conjure the “scent memories” of her 20s and begin to parse the refreshed outlook on her 30s—it’s less about literal people, places, or events, and more about lingering sensations. It’s a record of unadulterated romance, regretful self-sabotage, and deep contemplation, with the sobering end of summertime looming like a specter. In the second verse of “Hide-a-Lullaby,” Samira coos, “Write it down with tears, lick your lips so bitter in sweetness, send to the angels above.” It’s in this spirit of divine melodrama, love, and sorrow that the album was born——as well as reverence for a magical city that knows a thing or two about angels. Connect with Winter: Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | TikTok | SoundCloud | Bandcamp