Winterpills: Central Chambers

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Brian LaRue wrote in the New Haven Advocate: "Winterpills aren't the sort of band that plays all their cards before the first chorus. Their songs may start simply, with acoustic guitar or piano and vocals, then build into a shimmering full-band sound with galloping drums and echoed-out electric guitar — or they may start out with all cylinders firing, then abruptly scale down to a delicate vocal harmony between guitarist Philip Price and keyboardist Flora Reed. Whichever way they play it, these dynamics throw all the elements of the song into relief, producing a similar effect to coming up to the surface from underwater, or that moment when a fever breaks. Winterpills work with tension and release, stillness and motion, and that's what makes Price's melodically straightforward pop songs transcend, what piles a sense of drama onto their essentially simple structures. Price, the Northampton, Mass.–based band's main songwriter, says in a recent phone conversation that he aims to create 'little films' through a sound that ties together elements of classic pop-rock, contemporary indie rock, folk and chamber-pop."