Winter McQuinn is a Melbourne/Naarm artist exploring country and folk through a psychedelic lens. Lyrically his songs are contemplative and encourage listeners to question our society and look after the earth. 

Winter McQuinn's music ripples with free-ness similar to revered 1960s & 70s artists such as Nick Drake and Syd Barrett, and contemporary artists such as Kate Bollinger, Tex Crick and Alex Izenberg. Known as the frontman of psychedelic pop group, Sunfruits and drummer of jade imagine, McQuinn’s 2021 debut album ‘A Rabble Of Bees’ marked the beginning of his solo wanderings into psychedelic outsider pop. His 2024 sophomore album ‘Move To The Trees’ (featured in Rolling Stone AU and KEXP’s ‘Best Of’ lists for 2024), saw McQuinn honing his craft with a series of anthems for the future, settled in post-psych folk and 70s soft rock energy.

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McQuinn most recently released a co-written EP ‘Recently I’ve Been Missing The Colour Green’ with Acacia Pip (Pinch Points) which was described as “collection of 6 pastoral, slacker folk gems” by Shindig Magazine (UK), and saw McQuinn support notable artists including Leah Senior, Bures Band, Nice Biscuit, Joe Ghatt (NZ) and tour Australia, Europe and the UK. McQuinn has also began releasing music with a new duo project Beefheart and McQuinn with UK Artist Moby Beefheart (aka William Murray from outfit FUR).

His live group known as Winter McQuinn & The Garden Gnomes includes a conveyor belt of wonderful musicians including Acacia Coates (Pinch Points, Slush), Jaspar Robinson (Pup Tentacle), Imogen Cygler (Sunfruits, Jade Alice), Ollie Cox (Quested & Cox, Juice Webster) and Rudy Polacheck (Austin, Texas).

"Free-spirited, paisley boogie surrounding friendship and environmentalism with lysergic tones of Syd Barrett" — New Commute (USA)