What Kind Of Blue Are You? vinyl

LA-based contemporary dream pop artist Winter (Samira Winter) has unveiled her second album at the right time - we all need a hint of blue in our shoegaze to match the drear of the winter months. Deceptively retro-seeming yet sonically new, 'What Kind Of Blue Are You?' invites us to unlock the door of personal individuation and liberty, handing us the skeleton key that is shoegaze. I'm more of a turquoise myself. Clean and breathy vocal dubs are central to the album's sound: 'good' is an earnest slow-jam of trust in a relationship, while the industri-gaze banger 'write it out' is a paean for written catharsis, the therapy of journaling. A stellar album that eases up on shoegaze's reputation for potato-quality mastering; it's enjoyably pure.