Sunbather Imbues “Winter” With the Introspective Grandeur of the Season

Sunbather_Winter2_crop — Sunbather, image courtesy the artist

The sound of wind and echoing guitar notes leads us into Sunbather’s beautifully sprawling post-rock/dream pop track “Winter.” The percussion hits softly with splashes of cymbal and a second guitar plays a companion melody while the expressive vocals sit somewhere in the middle of the shifting whorls of sound. If there was a video for the song, one imagines a figure superimposed on a sunny but windswept, snowy landscape as the day timelapses by. It sounds like the kind of song that was written to embody not just the psychology of the introspective mood of a cold winter day but also the harboring and cultivating of dreams and aspirations and exploring them in detail and give them a full fledged expression. In this case with a lush but elegantly dynamic composition that uses sweeping passages and wide spaces that welcomes the winter mood and the limitations the season imposes on many of us as a season in which looking inward isn’t seen as antisocial and the multitudes of distractions available at other times of the year don’t pull us as much in various directions out of our focus on taking stock and contemplating life. Listen to “Winter” on Soundcloud and connect with Sunbather at the links provided.