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Irish emo-punks The Winter Passing on US tour w/ Teen Death, playing NYC on Friday (dates, LP stream, videos)

by Andrew Sacher

The Winter Passing
The Winter Passing

Ireland’s The Winter Passing are on tour now with their Richmond, VA-based 6131 labelmates Teen Death. They just hit The Fest over the weekend, and the tour lands in NYC on Friday (11/6) at Aviv with PWR BTTM, Mumblr and Nonsense. Tickets for that show are on sale now. They’ll hit PA tonight (11/5) and Richmond on Saturday (11/17). All dates are listed below.

The Winter Passing released their first full length, A Different Space of Mind, this past September, following a 2013 EP and a 2012 split with Forrest. They’re led by siblings Rob and Kate Flynn on co-lead vocals, and they offer up a raw-but-clear blend of the kind of emo and punk you usually associate more with the Midwestern US than Ireland. Rob’s voice is a dead ringer for Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids, and while male/female vocals and TGUK comparisons might make you say, “Oh, so they sound like The Anniversary?”, they actually don’t. Their influences are clear — they reference Brand New when they lift the melody and lyrics “I can’t shake this little feeling, I’ll never get anything right” from “Degausser” on “Nowhere Still” (they also have a song called “Daisy” for that matter) — but The Winter Passing give it their own twist. It’s a good record and you can stream it in full, with some videos, below.

The Winter Passing / Teen Death — 2015 Tour Dates
11/05 State College, PA @ Thrill St. #
11/06 Brooklyn, NY @ Aviv ~
11/07 Richmond, VA Strange Matter #

# w/ Youth In Bloom
~ w/ PWR BTTM, Mumblr, Nonsense