Anthemic honesty and mellow melodies are what you get from Rothstein. The young multidimensionalist who earlier this year released his debut album, High Water, is an artist whose range covers an unrealistically broad spectrum triangulated in the indescribable spaces between hip-hop, R&B, and something else entirely undiscovered. But within that space, he always brings a particularly emotional sense of relatability and stories of his life as an artist yet to fully emerge from underground music’s fluid floorboards. Though, in short time, that will change.

 

That ability to evoke feelings and memories is what has granted him such a rigidly strong fan base and what is allowing him to organically grow into the limelight. It’s also what has shaped his latest single, endless winter into one of his most artistically in-tact momentum shifts to date. With a muted guitar poignantly plugging away in the distance, Rothstein grasps at something new with his signature, subdued melody and unfailing sense of truthfulness coalescing seamlessly with an especially undertone tale of winter and all the insecurities, questions, and desires for something else to come with it. 

 

The desire to escape the cold and head to the beach. The push to escape the mundane and chase something new. The inescapable thoughts and memories of the past when the future looks so different. 

 

Rothstein is a poetic enigma who has so effortlessly tackled winter and somehow turned it into a mellow, meditative anthem for any fans of great music, evoking penmanship, and flawless production. And to top it all off, it seems that more of Rothstein’s new direction is on the horizon as a collaborative album with producer, Fallen Atom penciled into the 2019 calendar.