Win Win Winter's EP A Brief History Of… sounds better every time I give it a listen, which has been quite often lately. It's a brilliantly diverse disc that ranges from cocksure dance rock ("Baker Ave") to acoustic, steel guitar-kissed melancholy ("Doves and Uppercuts"). Splitting the difference is the mid-tempo, highly emotive mood rocker "New Accents."
On Wednesday, news arrived that Win Win Winter has finished its debut full-length. The band titled it Viole. The disc "should be out in time for the holiday season on 24 Hour Service Station," reads the press release.
Be sure to catch Win Win Winter perform Sept. 5 at the State Theatre. Frontman Tommy Simms will be joining forces with his sister Juliet Simms, lead singer of the just-back-from-Warped-Tour emo band Automatic Loveletter, which has an EP out on Sony/Epic. Here's the info:
This article appears in Aug 27 – Sep 2, 2008.