Fresh from sharing the 10th anniversary edition of his debut EP, The Wisp Sings, Winter Aid, aka Irish songwriter Shane Culloty, has announced his Inner Sunset EP, out January 12, 2024.

Accompanying the announcement is the release of the project’s title track and video.

Beyond ‘The Wisp Sings’ incredible continued life, the last five years have been relatively quiet for the Kerry native in music terms, as he moved to San Francisco with his wife.

Assimilating to life in a new city and country shortly led into the pandemic, which, between lockdown, elopement, and immigration form-filling, further delayed new musical activities.

Inner Sunset marks this transition with songs that bridges the time between two homes - partly written in both, and completed this year with additional production from Chuck Johnson.

"'Inner Sunset' was the first song I recorded after moving to San Francisco: I left all the windows open in our little apartment, and recorded the guitar and vocals in one track,” said Culloty on his new single.

“You can hear the sound of the bus and evening rush hour traffic on the 101. Inner Sunset is a neighborhood in San Francisco, and though it’s not where we lived, every time I watched the sun go down the name came to mind.

“A lot of places in the city have names that can seem quite poetic when you hear them first, evoking an imaginary setting before you eventually attach them to a concrete place of street signs and bus lines. “Inner Sunset” also felt like a good name for the feeling of needing to move on in life, to end one chapter and start another.”

The six-song Inner Sunset EP is largely instrumental , with the streets, sounds, and scenery of Culloty’s adopted new home inspiring the four tracks, and filtering into the recordings themselves.