Daffo shares a new holiday single titled “Winter Hat,” produced by Philip Weinrobe (Adrianne Lenker, Cass McCombs). “I’ve never heard a Christmas song that really resonates with me, so I thought it would be cool to have a holiday song that’s true to my music and true to me and how I actually feel during this time of the year,” Gabi Gamberg explains.

Daffo recently wrapped a full US tour supporting illuminati hotties and released the Pest/Crisis Kit LP via Concord Records, which combines their 2021 debut EP with its 2023 follow-up.

In thheir music, Daffo explores everything from shame and self-loathing to misplaced affection and the chaos of living with an overactive brain. As a kid growing up in the Philadelphia suburbs, Gamberg first started writing songs after taking up guitar at age 9, then later shaped their intimate yet frenetic sound by playing countless DIY shows in backyards and basements. At 16 they recorded the songs that eventually became the Crisis Kit—a five-song EP co-produced by Gamberg and friend and collaborator Hudson Pollock.

After graduating, Gamberg enrolled at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University and slowly made their way into the local DIY scene. As their community of fans began to grow, Gamberg downloaded TikTok on a whim and went viral with the second post they ever shared: a bedroom performance of a spontaneously composed song called “The Experiment.” The song later appeared as a bonus track on Daffo’s sophomore EP Pest, a brooding but tender project that revealed the full depth and power of their strangely poignant songwriting.

Order “Winter Hat” by Daffo HERE