Wiltshire songster Wildersky shows that one song can be like an extra log on the fire. "Can I Call You When The Winter's Done?" arrives as a lovingly home-recorded indie-folk-rock postcard, written while frost curled against the studio windows and hope flickered like candlelight.
From its initial acoustic strum to the ringing electric guitars that finally lift the chorus skyward, the song achieves a blend of melancholy and muscle. Wildersky's earthy, close, the slightest bit weather-worn voice chronicles the quiet ache of short days and very long nights, but every phrase is threaded with the sense of brighter seasons ahead. It is the sound of a person dialing an old friend in her head, holding onto shared memories as a gardener cuddles seedlings in January.
This single doesn't shine on studio polish but on patina. There are harmonies, layered but tucked in right where a little warmth is required, and percussion that comes in like thawing icicles dripping onto a tin roof like a soft-bedded bass line hums under it all, steady as a heartbeat under wool. Nothing sounds accidental, but nothing sounds over-polished evidence that music made at home can compete with glossy, big-budget slickness when the songwriting is this sure-footed. Its emotional transparency transforms even the minor chords into a whispered assurance that the sun will shine anew.
Inside a full-throated folk-rock experience, with lyrics that read like diary entries, you will find yourself humming while cleaning ice off the windscreen and a crescendo that shines white winter's grey into a glimmer of pastel springtime. "Can I Call You When The Winter's Done?" is a call to remember that seasons and sorrows are temporary. Nothing like a little reheated memory, steaming hot in the cold. With this release, Wildersky asks us to see beneath the frost line and sow early seeds of joy and hope in the thaw that's always coming, humming beneath the ice.
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Reviewed by LyricalOdyssey Music
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June 05, 2025
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