Adult Romantix is the millionth release from Winter, but if this your entry point into the dream-pop perfectionist lens that is Samira Winter and her band vehicle’s deep feels bundled up in blankets of fuzzy electricity — now more than a decade into her career — then let it arrive right on time no matter what stage it finds you today in life.

For Winter, it’s a season of change. The Brazilian-American songwriter recently made a cross-coastal move from Los Angeles to New York City, and the listen is Polaroided with memories of the life she left and the one of new possibilities she’s living in out loud through vivid color. Her formula of a knack for making the familiar sound fresh need not to be upended much from the entangled foundations of shoegaze and trip-hop despite her roots doing so, however.

Across 13 indie-pop sparklers that range from intensely blissed to warmly wistful and melancholic, she pieces together sugar-rushed nostalgia-in-real-time (“Just Like A Flower”, the Tanukichan-assisted “Hide-A-Lullaby”,) saccharine afterthoughts (“Without You”, “The Beach”,) and a wide-eyed ‘gazing wonderment on the point of it all (the morbid trinity that is the Horse Jumper of Love feature “Misery”, “Existentialism”, and “Sometimes I Think About Death”.) She transcends the timeline through a reverse chronology that begins with an end and ends with a new beginning, hitting the amygdala softly and hippocampus hard through a balanced mix of dopamine and oxytocin crushing together.

It’s getting easier by the day to not only become numb to an over-saturation of anything shoegaze-adjacent happening nowadays, but to life in general, yet Winters avoids the pitfalls of both here by virtue by being bound to a continuum devoid of being jaded that she committed to several years ago. Doubling as her first album and largest release to date for Winspear (Wishy, Slow Pulp,) it’s a fitting flower coronation for one of the underground rock scene’s most underrated influences on the shape of dream-pop today that on this go in particular, shows how starting a familiar story all over again can still provide a full-tilt emotional roller coaster in adulting when you look at through a different lens.

Highlights: “Just Like A Flower”, “Hide-A-Lullaby”, “Sometimes I Think About Death”

Winter’s Adult Romantix is available now on Winspear.

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