Details: Winter "What Kind Of Blue Are You?" LP or CS (2022, Bar/None). Featuring the singles, "atonement," with Hatchie, and "good," with SASAMI. New stock, sealed.

Description: "What Kind of Blue Are You?, Winter’s sophomore release with Bar/None Records, is an emotional excavation of Samira Winter’s purest self. Musically, the LP’s 10 songs reconnect with the earliest incarnation of Winter, once again painting with brushstrokes of distorted guitar, but using them to fuel a wiser, more mature form of sonic liberation. Whereas 2020’s Endless Space (Between You and I) was steeped in fairytale surrealism and springlike grace, her latest offering is crystalline and spartan, songs stripped to their inner blue core, Winter’s smoldering shadow self.

It’s another stunning work in a canon that's established her as one of Los Angeles' most enduring, consistently-head-turning dream poppers, the melancholy and bittersweet beauty that's been with her throughout Winter’s existence now pushed to center stage. Strengthened by her ever-increasing powers as a songwriter, she confronts painful wounds of trauma and despair for the first time on record and achieves some semblance of peace and healing in the process.

Before coming of age as a musician in the Boston indie-rock scene during the early 2010s, Samira spent her formative years growing up in Curitiba, Brazil, where her mother filled their home with the gentle melodies of MPB (música popular brasileira), and her father introduced her to the distorted sounds of American punk. In the years since, her collaborations have ranged from the new-age dub of Pachyman to the jazzy pop of Mild High Club, constantly expanding her musical Rolodex with new ideas, and building out her already singular sonic language."

Grade: M (new stock)

TRACK LISTING SIDE A:

A1. Wish I Knew
A2. Atonement (featuring Hatchie)
A3. Good (featuring SASAMI)
A4. Sunday
A5. Crimson Enclosure

TRACK LISTING SIDE B:

B1. Write It Out
B2. Lose You
B3. Fool
B4. Mr. On-My-Mind
B5. Kind of Blue

CS TRACK LISTING:

A1. Wish I Knew
A2. Atonement (featuring Hatchie)
A3. Good (featuring SASAMI)
A4. Sunday
A5. Crimson Enclosure

CS TRACK LISTING:

B1. Write It Out
B2. Lose You
B3. Fool
B4. Mr. On-My-Mind
B5. Kind of Blue