Winding Stairs

Winding Stairs is a duo from Gothenburg; members are Martin Wahlqvist and Lina Wedin. Tired of sitting alone at home playing to themselves, they found inspiration in each other. In the collision between their different musicalities, the sound of Winding Stairs emerged.
ST, 5/5
Soft and hurtful pop with ingenius arrangements. Its a little summey of
what Winding Stairs music is about. However, its never bland or
pretentious. Jazz drums find their way in now and then. Melodies swirl
around like branches in a leafy tree. It feels fresh and classic at the
same time. Kind of like newly pressed sheets.
GP, 4/5
Winding Stairs produces a finely balanced blend of danceable pop and sad melodies. The hit song Shadow Stripes is modern pop at its best - not out of place on mainstream radio, but offering listeners a lot more as well! Clever music that moves high above the ground.
Zero Music Magazine
Gothenburg duo Winding Stairs - Martin Wahlqvist and Lina Wedin - has with their sugary-sweet, melancholy and slightly experimental indie pop an ability to sneak in under your clothes and caress the frozen skin. This is relaxing music for rainy summer days and dark autumn nights. Nothing you put on when it's party time, for which the contents on Everything are too fragile. But when you really want to indulge yourself, Winding Stairs has a lot to give and the best and finest songs are like little jewels in a wood filled with pine boughs and cones. To listen to Winding Stairs at its best is a bit like putting on a warm sweater for chilly summer evenings when the heat from candles are no longer enough. This is the quality I appreciate most from songs like "12", "Automatic moves" and the jazzy "When lines turn to arrows." Single releases "Shadow stripes" and "Do not stay up too late" are beautiful as well. Everything is an asset among albums on the record shelf. I strongly suspect that the album will be heard from many CD players come autumn, including my own. The CD is produced together with Martin Molin from Detektivbyrån.
poppostergirl.blogspot.com
Winding Stairs "Shadow Stripes," may appeal to a lot of people who aren't hardcore Swede-pop addicts; it's got a little bit of the indie-pop aura around it as well as possibly one of the most interesting musical compositions of the year, with its more lush, melodic, serious, and string and piano-centered base overlain by jaunty "la la la"s.



Hits in the car (stytzer.blogspot.com)
The past week I’ve been giving the forthcoming debut album Everything by Swedish duo Winding Stairs a number of listens. Especially the album opener Shadow Stripes has left quite an impression. I mean; when you wake up in the middle of the night and without really knowing it start humming the song, they must be doing something right?