Winter - Adult Romantix

On Adult Romantix, Winter delivers her most cinematic and emotionally layered work to date—a farewell love letter to Los Angeles, framed as “a tunnel of summers and memories.” Written during a period of transition as Samira Winter prepared for a move across the country, the record captures both the ache of departure and the shimmer of nostalgia. Inspired by Mary Shelley’s gothic-romantic literature and the bittersweet optimism of ’90s rom-coms, Adult Romantix feels like a diary of fleeting nights, shifting cityscapes, and restless longing.

Musically, the album drifts between strummy bliss and shadowy desire: dreamy-glazed vocals, swirling guitars, and icy breakbeats create a world that’s both intimate and dreamlike. Winter draws from a wide palette—Rather Ripped-era Sonic Youth, the fragile acoustic confessions of Elliott Smith, Dean Blunt’s genre-blurring haze, and the golden-hued shoegaze of California stalwarts like Further and Starflyer 59. The result is a record that vacillates between brightness and melancholy, ecstasy and yearning, each song suspended in the tension of saying goodbye.

Adult Romantix marks Winter’s Winspear debut and stands as a testament to reinvention: a portrait of an artist in motion, leaving behind one life while imagining the next.