The Declining Winter is a British band based in Yorkshire, led by Richard Adams, the co-founder of the Domino Records group Hood.
[1] The band plays a unique form of pastoral pop taking in influences from lo-fi, electronica and post rock with a strong visual aesthetic inspired by the countryside of Yorkshire.
After a long period of silence, the band (now consisting solely of Richard Adams with assorted guests) returned to release a 10" Fragment 5 on French label Monopsone in 2013 followed by Lost Songs cassette on Sanity Muffin in 2014.
The latter album consists of unfinished recordings rescued by Adams from his crashed hard drive and was later issued as a small run of CDrs.
Later that same year the long delayed The Definition Glance 7" appeared on Spanish indie label Acuarela followed by another single I Remember - the lead track featuring the words of poet Thomas Hood.