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.

Most recently, Winter Aid has released a 10th anniversary edition of his debut EP, ‘The Wisp Sings’, fully remastered for its first time pressing on vinyl via Bluestack Records, along with an expanded 13 track digital edition. In addition, Winter Aid has shared the previously unreleased track, “Lazy Beds,” a wistful look at where Culloty grew up in Co. Kerry, available via all digital platforms. The Wisp Sings EP is anchored by its title-track single; a song whose sustainability and longevity is both a testament to its quality and ability to connect with people worldwide, and a source of surprise to its creator. Since its release in 2013, the track has garnered well over 300 million streams across all platforms, working its way onto daytime television segments, into documentaries on BBC and RTE, dramas on HBO and Prime, and soundtracking an ad that ran during the 2022 Oscars broadcast.  

Revisiting The Wisp Sings and celebrating everything that has happened with it over the past decade is the closing of one chapter for Culloty, and the opening of another. In the weeks and months ahead, plans are in the works to release a steady stream of new Winter Aid material, including a long-awaited sophomore full-length album, in the spring of 2024.

Blending lovelorn lyrics with scenes of rural isolation, and moving from gentle folk to achingly catchy synthpop, Winter Aid is producing some of the most original music in Ireland right now.

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

“JUST GORGEOUS” BBC RADIO

“STELLAR, INCREDIBLY ACCOMPLISHED STUFF” THUMPED.COM