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Winterpills

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Folk pop can fall into certain traps: it can be cliched, too precious, or too derivative of other established bands, but the Winterpills are an original band with warm melodies who avoid these traps. Fans of Innocence Mission, Belle and Sebastian, and The Trash Can Sinatras will probably enjoy the Winterpills. If you like this type of melodic folk rock, may I suggest the Swedish band Ronderlin.

Is there a pill for the winter? Yes. It's this album.

Lush and jangly and warm, like the morning sun slipping in past the icycles on your roof. It envelopes you and warms you up. This album hugs you.

I found the Winterpills through a band called School for the Dead and their singer Henning Ohlenbusch. Ohlenbusch and the Winterpills' Philip Price were collaborators in a band called The Gay Potatoes which also featured Chris Collingwood of Fountains of Wayne. Did you follow that? I'm not sure even I did.

Price, like Ohlenbusch and Collingwood, has a talent for scribing beautiful, friendly, melodic, and moving pop hits. The Winterpills themselves, the band, arranges them into these delicate yet powerful expressions of emotion. You'll love it.

If you enjoy the music of Elliot Smith, Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, The Sundays, Paul Simon, School for the Dead, Fountains of Wayne, and Suzanne Vega you will want this album for your very own.

After many recmmendations and partly due to the fact that this group is from my area, I recently bought this cd. I love it. The music is soft and gorgeous, and The Winterpills definately have some major talent, successfully blending female and male vocals. If you listen to the likes of Iron and Wine and Sufjan Stevens, definately buy this cd.

An hypnotic, exquisitely crafted collection. I especially admire how Philip Price et al. create their own idiom out of some very clear influences (Elliot Smith for sure, Belle and Sebastian, Yo La Tengo, Simon and Garfunkel, et al.), blending moody folk introversion and indie-rock hooks. These are people who create music, I suspect, because exactly what they want to hear doesn't yet exist. Flora Reed's harmonies are haunting.

I was introduced to Winterpills by a friend in New Jersey, who raved about this CD. He was right. This is truly magnificent music. There is something quite classic in the blending of the vocals that is magical. Just listen to "Pills for Sara" "Laughing" and "Found Weekend" and your soul will be stirred. While others are comparing them to newer bands, I hear sixties Mamas and Papas and Its a Beautiful Day in there. The songs are timeless and expansive. If this came out in the sixties, it would be considered a classic today. Yes, it is that good. Do not hesitate in picking this one up. A+++

An amazing album that will haunt you with achingly beautiful melodies and intelligent lyrics. Reminiscent of both Elliot Smith and Radiohead, songs like "Pills for Sara" and "Threshing Machine" will stick with you. I had the good fortune to see this band at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and they were one of the highlights of the weekend.

I bought this cd based solely on the Washington Post review. This is BEAUTIFUL music--perfect for a lazy sunday afternoon.

good harmonies, good clear guitar playing. talented group i hope to hear more from.

I can't stop playing pills for sara. My wife & I love it. I first heard it on the CD from Paste Magazine #19.