Stunningly gorgeous album in the vein of Elliot Smith without the overly maudlin spirit. Winterpills bring you a tender, filigreed sound, a humming and a fragmentation of warmth and chill, a delicate suspension of belief. "" Winterpills walk the fragile dynamic of intimate warmth and emotional chill. The band`s debut, which bears no small similarity to Elliott Smith`s Zoloft-meets-Beatles baroque pop and the desperate sad-core of Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, is full of classic American snapshots."-HaRp. "There`s a delicious hush to "A Benediction," the opening track on Winterpills` first album. As leader Philip Price murmuringly sings, "All the sad boys come home with you" over an ambling acoustic-guitar line, visions of Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and other `60s choirboys, coats wrapped against Northeast weather, come to mind. Then things go from merely pretty to downright glorious when the harmonies start, as crisp and shining as crystal. You hear the winter in Winterpills. ..Downright glorious.. Whether delicate or hard-driving, all the tracks on "Winterpills" evoke the miseries of that first breakup, the loss of innocence, all manner of concerns of the newly grown up. The songs are good enough, but that sound -- that ice-filigreeing-the-bare-trees sound, cold and achingly beautiful -- is what sets this group apart" -- Washington Post. "Winterpills has offered up a debut of faultless, sparkling indie pop, reminiscent of the gems once tossed out by the late Elliott Smith... a perfect album." -- Perfomer Magazine. "Imagine Elliot Smith harmonizing with a female counterpart, or Simon and Garfunkel if Art was a bit more girly. Winterpills make seamlessness look easy. Songwriter Philip Price, like the aforementioned Mr. Smith, has a gift for transforming melancholy into melody. The act`s songs feature hushed vocal harmonies between Price and cohort Flora Reed, Prices spare acoustic guitar, subtle layers of electric guitar added by Dennis Crommett, and laidback bass and drums by Jose Ayerve and Dave Hower respectively. They get the balance just right, creating a landscape of muted colors and slow-building hooks."-JunkMedia. "And such stories: Alternately sad,cynical, and deeply moving, the ten songs here evoke the dusky seasonal chill of the band`s origins. Although they`ve drawn comparisons to slo-core stalwarts such as Low, Winterpills isn`t so easy to peg. There`s a jaunty pop feel on "Laughing", where silvery bursts of electric guitar ornament the chugging acoustic that pushes the song, and "Portrait" is a heartrending roots-rock ballad. Singers Philip Price and Flora Reed harmonize like kin, his voice strong and prominent, her accompaniment breathy, almost ethereal. It`s a mesmerizing flash of warmth among the turned-down lamps and cold hardwood floors of a wintry night.""-No Depression.
 Laughing - mp3
A Benediction - mp3
Threshing Machine - mp3
Portrait - mp3 |
