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Winter featuring Hatchie “Atonement”

Shoegaze is a genre where simply nailing the familiar post-My Bloody Valentine aesthetic is enough to make a song very appealing, and “Atonement” really hits that mark. The odd tones, the sensuality, the wooziness – check, check, check. But the combination of Samira Winter and members of Hatchie results in something a bit brighter, a little more bubblegum. There’s some darker tones in the mix – that central detuned guitar part sounds very grey to me – but all of that is in sharp contrast with a cooing vocal hook that seems to blast through the song like big beams of blinding light.

Buy it from Bandcamp.