Winter Aid (aka Shane Culloty) has just released his sophomore album Pull the Sky Inside. The album 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.
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.