Winterpills

The Light Divides

(Signature Sounds)

Record Review by Alexis Roberts

The music that Winterpills creates is pieced together with faultless amounts of everything that makes East Coast pop-folk worth listening to: a male lead singer complemented by the coy and precious voice of a female counterpart, acoustic guitars, key boards, emotive tell all lyrics, and most of all, a lot of heart and soul. Winterpills have made their songs easy to believe, easy to listen to and for sure easy to like.

The Light Divides is a step in a new direction for Winterpills, seeing as how their first recording effort was done in the home of singer/keyboard player Flora Reed’s home.  All 16 tracks from The Light Divided were recorded in a more official studio environment, which is where they apparently began to take their real shape. Sixteen tracks is an ambitious album size, and almost a bit intimidating to listen to! Even though the album is abnormally long, especially when we are used to the scanty 10 or 11 songs per disc, it doesn’t feel like an errand to listen to it from start to finish.

Winterpills' individuality is what sets them apart because they aren’t quite “every Boston band” and that’s because they are from a town in Massachusetts that isn’t quite Boston.  Delicate, individual, and completely enjoyable, the songs from The Light Divides are great examples of the new wave of folk-inspired Americana.