Adult Romantix

Description

A key figure in the Los Angeles DIY scene for over ten years, Samira Winter has been shaping dream pop under the name Winter that is at once eclectic, poetic, and immersive. With Adult Romantix, her first album on the Winspear label, she delivers a farewell letter to LA, full of sunshine, melancholy, and romantic scents. Inspired by the gothic literature of Mary Shelley and the romantic comedies of the 90s, the album captures the end of a cycle, between summer nostalgia and a desire for renewal. Written over two years of transitions and travel, this record also marks Samira’s move to New York, in search of a new breath of fresh air. Across thirteen tracks, she blends hazy guitars, vocals veiled in melancholy, and precious collaborations (Horse Jumper of Love, Tanukichan). Between the acoustic intimacy of Elliott Smith, the Californian saturation of 2010s shoegaze, and the surges of Sonic Youth’s Rather Ripped, Adult Romantix moves between romantic impulse and the vertigo of change — a bittersweet album, at once diaphanous and deeply visceral.