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"Winter is the product and culmination of long-term emotional trials and trauma; a patchwork of incredibly personal life events recontextualized and woven into a cohesive love story. It is the nervous first moments of developing young love and the elation of truly thinking you've found the one, and the slow internal destruction as things fall apart. Sonically, it reinforces this narrative approach with it's eschewing of traditional structure, opting for more winding and unpredictable tracks that flow from section to section.

 

Winter, also, is a celebration of life-long friendships; the four band members Sklyar Bankson (lyrics, guitar, vocals), Jacob Howard (guitar), Hunter Hankinson (bass), and Kyle Porter (drums) have known each other since high school, and have played together as Strelitzia for a decade now. After quickly releasing the first 5 songs they wrote as an EP in 2017, they started to truly refine their songwriting and laid the groundwork for Winter, all the while continuing to play shows opening for some of their scene's bigger names (e.g. Invalids, Elephant Gym, Home is Where, Oolong, glass beach, Via Luna, awakebutstillinbed). Blending their disparate influences and inclinations, and playing with the same group for so long, has led to a sound that could not have been found with any other group. This album, 7 years later, is the culmination of this creative melding, becoming something charmingly quirky and undeniably unique.

 

This is an album that revels in the contrast; intimate and earth-shattering, lighthearted and deeply emotional, meditative and manic. They found a balance that is genuinely captivating, and wholly theirs. Strelitzia could not be more proud of what they've made, and with something so personal, it's easy to see why."

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