Los Angeles artist Violet Whimsey leans into heartbreak with a witchy grace on โWinter Blues,โ an indie / dark alternative breakup track born in the strangest season of recent memory, in peak lockdown, when the world already felt blurry and wrong.
Written in that isolation, the song zooms in on a relationship that subtly rotted from the inside out, with miscommunications, mixed signals, and the slow realization that โnothing is all that is left of you and me and winter blues.โ Produced by Stephen Kellner, with vocals recorded by Jenni Rudolph and mastered by Rob Klein, itโs gorgeous throughout.
The track opens on vivid, shimmery guitar lines that glint like frost on a streetlight, immediately setting a dreamy, slightly off-kilter mood. Then Violetโs haunting, dark, and hypnotically steady voice slips in mesmerizingly casting a spell on you. She starts conversationally, as she sings, โYou want a song written about you? I guess itโs the least that I can do.โ This line comes like it could go wrong in a really uncomfortable way. It sounds like a reluctant gift. But hear me out, itโs about to catch your heartstrings. The drums come in with a steady thump, anchoring the haze while the rest of the music hangs in this misty, musty atmosphere, like breath in cold air.
As the song unfolds, the lyrics sharpen. She pulls you back to when they both thought that they โwere winningโย just to keep company through those โwinter blues,โ quietly skewering the idea that proximity equals connection. Later, the โsilver lining is in the timingโ line turns quarantine into a kind of brutal clarityโhis sun finally fading enough for her to see the shadows he cast. The way she stretches the word โbluesโ into a ghostly, lingering vowel is the emotional bullseye, because those warm melodies are wrapped around a cold truth that freezes your soul in limbo.
โWinter Bluesโ doesnโt just soundtrack lonely winter nights; it sits down beside you in the dark and names why youโre really there. Itโs really cold but really raw and fresh like it was cut hot in the midst of passion gone wrong in insufferable constant proximity. Check out Violet Whimseyโs latest release on YouTube.
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Review by: Naomi Joan