WINTER AID

Winter Aid is Shane Culloty, an Irish independent musician who lives in Dublin or San Francisco, depending when you catch him. After his debut EP ‘The Wisp Sings’ became a sleeper Spotify hit, he built on that success with the album ‘The Murmur of the Land’ in 2017.

Pull the Sky Inside is Winter Aid’s latest album and finds Culloty stretching the extremities as to what is sonically expected from a collection of Winter Aid songs, working with producers Larry Crane (Elliott Smith, The Decemberists) and Chuck Johnson (Daniel Bachman, Claire Rousay) to weave in electronic sonic strands and new percussive elements.

Having uprooted from Dublin to San Francisco with his wife, assimilating to life in a new city and country shortly led into the pandemic, which, between lockdown, elopement, and immigration form-filling, delayed new musical activities. That gestation period, though, led Shane to his most realized collection of songs.

Pull The Sky Inside captures that sense of displacement: feeling a bit unmoored and out of place, but constantly trying to explore new scenery. It's a record with one foot in Culloty’s homeland back in Ireland, while very much a reflection of his new surroundings and making sense of everything going on around him.

Shane re-emerged with Winter Aid, but was never really out of mind, with the continued success of his very first single, “The Wisp Sings,” which has garnered well over 300 million streams across all platforms, and 3 billion posts on TikTok. 

"A SONGWRITER OF SUBSTANCE… ALLURING CHAMBER POP" THE IRISH TIMES

“JUST GORGEOUS” BBC RADIO

“STELLAR, INCREDIBLY ACCOMPLISHED STUFF” THUMPED.COM