Shower Curtain share new single with Sex Week-directed music video
“Nails certain things about ’90s indie rock that plenty of present-day revivalists can’t quite capture.”
- STEREOGUM
“Promises an album packed with wistful reminiscing of indie rock’s storied past.”
- PASTE MAGAZINE
“Invoking both shoegaze vibes as well as memories of The Cranberries’ less pop-driven efforts”
- CONSEQUENCE
“The next to burst out of the scene will undoubtedly be Shower Curtain.”
- NOTION
New York City’s Shower Curtain, the four-piece band led by Brazilian-American artist Victoria Winter, are thrilled to share their latest single, “you’re like me.” With reverberating guitars and emotionally cutting lyricism, today’s track displays Shower Curtain’s ability to digest fraught situations into melodic sound spheres of distortion. The centerpiece of their upcoming debut album words from a wishing well, due October 18 via Angel Tapes/Fire Talk Records, “you’re like me” arrives with an official music video portraying a distant relationship directed by the NYC duo Sex Week.
“‘you’re like me’ is about realizing that often the people that hurt you the most are sometimes the ones with qualities that you see in yourself,” Winter explains. “It speaks about two people hiding their feelings for each other and lacking emotional responsibility with the other, leading to an endless loop of subtle hurting. Production-wise, I wanted the guitars to have a 90’s feel, we were also testing the use of the drum machine in the song. I was inspired by the returned use of y2k drum machine sounds in contemporary indie music.”
FLOOD Magazine premiered the official video for “you’re like me” this morning, calling the track, “a sharp-edged epic which builds and releases over the course of five and a half minutes as vocalist Victoria Winter’s soft vocals get swallowed up by scuzzy guitar riffs and tight percussion.” Shot in New York City on a Saturday night into a Sunday morning, the video captures the distance that can grow between people that know exactly how to hurt each other.
LISTEN TO “YOU’RE LIKE ME”
WATCH THE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR “YOU’RE LIKE ME”
PRE-ORDER WORDS FROM A WISHING WELL
Today’s release arrives after last month’s insomnia-inspired single, “benadryl man.” The announcement of words from a wishing well was heralded by Shower Curtain’s first song of the year, “wish u well.” Arriving with a music video directed by Trevor Scholl and starring Brenna Gonzalez from Julia’s War band Lola Star, the track served as an ode to the early bedroom pop beginnings of the project. Together, these singles showcase how the band has grown leaps and bounds through break-up musings and layered guitar riffs.
LISTEN TO “BENADRYL MAN
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LISTEN TO “WISH U WELL”
WATCH THE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR “WISH U WELL”
The band’s upcoming debut follows their 2021 EP Something Instead and 2023 singles; “meus passos,” with Brazilian group terraplana, and “edgar,” the final track of words from a wishing well that Stereogum called “a lingering blast of poignant shoegaze” and Paste Magazine praised as “a gorgeous, reflective arc of survival and loss and hope.”
Last year’s singles represented a significant milestone in the band's journey, signaling a bold artistic evolution for the band from bedroom pop to sludgy rock after a two-year hiatus. Beginning as Victoria’s solo project, the band has found a home within Brooklyn’s emerging slowcore and shoegaze scene, adding members Cody Hudgins (Crate) on bass, Ethan Williams (Punchlove) on guitar, and Sean Terrell (Fasting) on drums.
Later this month, Shower Curtain will embark on their first full-length headlining tour across North America, making stops along the East Coast and down South before heading midwest with fellow New York band MX LONELY. The tour will culminate in an album release show presented by Stereogum at local haunt TV Eye with support from a to-be-announced special guest, My Transparent Eye and Many Shining Windows.
SHOWER CURTAIN LIVE
OCTOBER
24 - Rhizome - Washington, D.C.
25 - Banditos - Richmond, VA
26 - Snug Harbor - Charlotte, NC
27 - Dead Echo - Atlanta, GA
28 - Coffee Bar - Gadsen, AL
29 - Okay Bar - New Orleans, LA
31 - Howdy - Kansas City, MO
NOVEMBER
1 - Cloudland Theater - Minneapolis, MN
2 - Schuba’s - Chicago, IL*
3 - Dirty Dungarees - Columbus, OH*
4 - Design Collective - Cincinnati, OH
6 - Arts Brewery Collective - Toronto, ON
7 - Government Center - Pittsburgh, PA
13 - TV Eye - Ridgewood, NY - ON SALE NOW
* - w/ MX LONELY
SHOWER CURTAIN
WORDS FROM A WISHING WELL
ANGEL TAPES / FIRE TALK RECORDS
Release Date: October 18, 2024
1. benadryl man
2. wish u well
3. take me home
4. you’re like me
5. tell u (interlude)
6. bedbugs
7. starpower
8. put me on a shelf
9. edgar
words from a wishing well is the debut record from Shower Curtain, the New York quartet fronted by Brazilian-American artist Victoria Winter (vocals/guitar), alongside Ethan Williams (guitar/vocals), Sean Terrell (drums), and Cody Hudgins (bass). Self-produced by Winter and Williams, words from a wishing well sketches early adulthood experiences in swirling layers of guitars. Winter wrote its tracks across her first few years of living in New York City, and they exist within a conversation between one’s own intuition and that of the universe. Channeling the sludgy distortion of 90s shoegaze and grunge, words from a wishing well establishes Shower Curtain as a standout in the city’s latest crop of bands.
Lead single “wish u well” offers a connecting thread into words from a wishing well, combining the pop tendencies of early Shower Curtain music with heavier production. One of the last songs written for words from a wishing well, Winter and Williams crafted “wish u well” across a pair of whirlwind sessions in the final days of tracking. “tell u (interlude)” emerges from these same sessions, and similarly pulls from Winter’s adolescence. Inspired by the Brazilian music she grew up with, the largely electronic interlude demonstrates the breadth of Shower Curtain’s forward-thinking alt-rock.
In addition to Winter and Williams, Shower Curtain is anchored by drummer Sean Terrell and bassist Cody Hudgins. Throughout words from a wishing well, guitars and vocal melodies co-exist alongside a textured blend of moments heavy and soft. “Bedbugs” turns up the fuzz as Winter lists obsessive patterns atop Terrell’s breakneck percussion: “Tapping, hiding, facing, searching, feel your hairs calling me out.” Album centerpiece, “You’re Like Me,” probes cycles of hurt between walls of distortion, and puts Shower Curtain’s dynamic approach to rock on full display.
Sinister opener, “benadryl man,” explores the struggle to feel safe in your own home, having trouble sleeping in a place not yet yours. Its screeching strings — performed by Catcher’s Zach Mezzo (violin) and Wince’s Wil Ren (cello) — are improvised and overdubbed, forming a makeshift quartet fit to score any case of sleep paralysis. “Everytime I go to bed // there’s a man sitting on the edge // of my velvet purple couch,” Winter sings, injecting metaphor into her real-life nightmares. “He’s hanging out when I’m not around.” This anxiety extends throughout words from a wishing well, and takes different shapes across tracks informed by grief, envy, love and lust.
“If one wishes into a wishing well, I’d like to believe that there is a reason why that wish would or wouldn’t come true,” Winter says of the album’s title, which reflects her search for spiritual guidance in life and music. “‘words from a wishing well’ speaks to the return of that wish from the universe.”
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