Winter Share New Single 'Lose You' & Announce Tour Dates With Peel Dream

Winter has shared her new single "lose you", a dreamlike reverie that harkens back to Samira Winter's earliest days, stripping her songwriting down to its core elements, crystalline and spartan. The new single comes with the announcement of West Coast tour dates with the like minded Peel Dream Magazine.

Over the course of the pandemic, Samira decamped to Studio 22 in L.A. with producer Joo Joo Ashworth (Automatic, Dummy, SASAMI) where the pair spent the many months of harsh uncertainty sharpening her songs into a fine point. "I felt like I was making music in a dark cave with an old friend and no one else existed," Samira says of the process.

Within that place of separation from the outside world, she was able to venture into the core of Winter, imbuing every musical choice with a confident intentionality, and newfound vulnerability. More so than ever before, the hypnotic rhythms of electronic music were a key reference point, as well as reliable favorites like early MBV & The Pastels.

Despite its euphoric clusters of synthesizers and skyward melodies, "lose you" is one of the most vulnerable songs from those sessions, Winter speaking to the grim realities of predatory abuse. "It's a song about one of my saddest moments," she explains, "where I realized that my close friend had been groomed by this older person that we all knew. I locked myself in my studio, turned on my blue light, and channeled this moment of despair through writing this song. Painting with exclamations from my Juno synth and releasing my emotions in a flurry of reverse delayed vocals."

Winter is the songwriting alias of Los Angeles based musician Samira Winter. 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.

2020 saw the release of her album Endless Space (Between You & I) via Bar/None Records, which was praised by i_D, The FADER, Line of Best Fit, AllMusic, and more. Winter has toured with Cherry Glazerr, BRONCHO, Speedy Ortiz, and Boogarins, among others, and currently performs as a touring member of Hatchie.

Listen to the new single here:

Tour Dates

Aug 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ Braindead Studios, Genghis Cohen

Aug 12 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar *

Aug 17 - San Francisco,CA @ Bottom of the Hill *

Aug 19 - Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar *

Aug 20 - Seattle,WA @ The Vera Project *

* w/ Peel Dream Magazine

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