Winters End

Music runs in the blood of the siblings that are Winters End. The Sydney-based duo are multi-instrumentalist Marissa Pinto and percussionist Christopher Pinto. Since Winters End’s inception in 2011, their genre has been described as an 80’s- influenced mixture of indie, pop, and electronic music. Tone Deaf Australia describes Winters End as having "a sound that is incredibly dynamic and forward thinking in its grandeur”.
Winters End’s 2015 single “Mayfair” was recently awarded International Song of the Year at the 2016 Music Oz Australian Independent Music Awards. “Mayfair” took the band on their first national Australian tour, in 2015. Almost concurrently, “Walls” (a 2014 release), was internationally recognized and the band toured overseas performing at You Bloom Festival (Los Angeles, California) and Indie Week Music Festival (Toronto, Canada) as well as performing side shows at both festivals.
Winters End’s noise-creating singles “Walls” and “Mayfair” have had their video clips spun on MTV Australia’s Upload, with both singles ranked number 1 on Triple J Unearthed and Reverbnation.

With their new single currently in production with Lachlan Mitchell of Parliament Studios, the band are scheduled to tour nationally upon its release. This single, a follow-up to the expansive track “Mayfair” has seen Winters End develop a sound that has been difficult to categorise. To remedy this Winters End have self-named their genre. Their emerging work exists now under the genre of “Cloud Pop”, defined as an atmospheric sound featuring dark beautiful chords, emotive vocals, backed with expansive drumming and resulting in music that fills every corner of the room, much the way clouds fill the sky. Check out Winters End on Social Media for a peek at their in-studio footage!

One of the most featured unsigned Australian bands, Winters End continue to receive community radio play and write ups in publications across the globe. Determined to live their dream of sharing their music, especially through live performance, the pair are consistently working on new music to further cement their presence both locally and internationally

"It's no wonder these two have recently been playing across the US, because if they keep making these kind of sounds hopefully Winters End have a lot of playing, recording and touring ahead of them" It's My Kind of Scene (AU). Needless to say, there's a lot more yet to come from Winters End.