Hamilton, Canada based Madeline Winter doesn’t self-identify as a conduit for the many musical identities and sounds assumed, but at first listen, you’d be quick to hear the acute dynamic range between electronic rage-pop, hip-hop, emo, shoe-gaze, and sometimes just pure beat-centric futuristic music.
It’s hard to keep up with such a frantically creative mind.
This shapeshifter of sound is known by several handles and assumed identities over the years, but Madeline’s loudest energy is emerging in the singular form of blackwinterwells, a hyper-accelerated lone writer, producer and performer, for the digital generation, giving a voice to the emotions within a static somewhat dystopian 2-dimensional human world.
While quietly accumulating millions of streams and press mentions in articles from The New York Times to Billboard, blackwinterwells is continually referenced with producer, songwriter and guest-vocal credits helping develop the unique sounds for artists and friends such as quinn, midwxst, glaive, 8485 and many more.
blackwinterwells has found a title for this collective of artists, known as the “cybernetic healing unit,” Helix Tears.
Over the years, outside observers tried to incorrectly pigeonhole blackwinterwells as some kind of genre-specific trendy blip, because of the unhinged success influencing an emerging genre of electronic pop.
It’s not their fault – when looking at the digital universe from the physical world, it’s easy to judge what exists on the surface, and then move on.
That’s why, this is where the story ends for most, but is just beginning for blackwinterwells and the many voices of an entire generation coming to destroy, and then rebuild, the stagnation and constant loop of music and sound as we know it. A genre that rapidly morphs, as soon as the masses begin to force it into focus.
Keep staring, and embrace the blur of whatever sound comes next, because this is the only way to truly understand the genre-less music of blackwinterwells.
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