Ears Wide Open: Winter

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Samira Winter is a Brazilian-American singer-guitarist who relocated to L.A. about a year ago from Boston after completing her studies at Emerson College. Her dream-pop project Winter debuted in 2012 with the “Daydreaming” EP, and last year’s “Tudo Azul” EP boasted indie-pop in both English and Portuguese. In L.A., she’s formed a live band with guitarist Matt Hogan, bassist Edward Breckenridge and Christina Gaillard, but Winter’s new album “Supreme Blue Dream” (out March 10 on Lolipop Records) was made with her East Coast collaborator/producer Nolan Eley. The mix of dissonant synths and ethereal guitar and vocals on the first single first single “Someone Like You” sounds like a concoction Yo La Tengo or Galaxie 500 would stir up. Far from a one-note album, though, Winter rocks out on the Best Coast-ish “Crazy,” immerses herself in hazy nostalgia in “Pretender” and goes back to daydreaming on the lovely “Some Kind of Surprise.” It’s clear she’s taken to the L.A. life — “If you could only be here, it’d always be the best / If you could only be here, I’d be the happiest,” she sings in “Waiting for the Summer.” Nice that you won’t have to wait for summer for this album.

||| Stream: “Someone Like You”

Photo by Carl Pocket from FOMO Fest 2015