Adult Romantix captures that dizzy, rose-tinted and very specific high of falling for someone new, the kind of love that feels like a drug before you know who the other person really is. Samira Winter has written an album that lives entirely in the head-rush before the heartbreak painted with the shimmering colours of shoegaze and lo-fi indie pop, and it feels as familiar and nostalgic as thinking about your first teenage crush. The building blocks are straight out of Loveless but where My Bloody Valentine buried their vocals in abstraction, Winter’s words of intimate infatuation and curiosity are crystal clear.

The songs on Adult Romantix are about the excitement and mystery of new love, and wanting to understand another person so badly that it borders on obsession, and a signature of the record is that you can hear Samira smiling through every line. The opener Just Like A Flower contains a slow-motion prelude that blooms into a shoegaze banger with huge, fuzzy riffs. On Misery she sings ‘I want to be caught in your misery’ with a dreamy sigh like someone stepping willingly into quicksand, and there’s a deliberate narcotic quality to the texture of the album. The songs feel like they’re gently sedating you, and it’s a brilliantly honest portrayal of love’s addictive first phase where everything glows. In My Basement Room uses a looped breakbeat that gives the song a mixtape energy, while Candy #9 trades guitars for layers of soft synth pads and vaporous reverb. From breakbeats to fuzz walls, everything belongs to the same nostalgic dream. Winter captures the same fleeting magic as a Richard Linklater film, but beneath the warmth there’s a sense that the album is almost too perfect, too blissful. This phase can’t last, and the high will fade, so be careful not to get too lost in the feeling. Adult Romantix is about the hazy obsession before you know someone well enough to see their flaws, and they nail it so flawlessly that we’ve fallen for it too.