
Winter Gloves began with a single microphone in Charles F's downtown Montreal apartment as he tried to piece together the distance he'd covered since growing up in the countryside of a very rural Quebec. The jarring shift of such a transition seemed to peek through every chance it could, a constant inspiration as much as frustration that was drafted in the band's self-released Let Me Ride EP of mainly demo tracks. With only a handful of live shows behind them at the beginning of the year, Winter Gloves was already receiving invitations [...]