Release Date: 01 April 2016
Label: Signature Sounds
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 701237208022
Genres: Rock
Release Date: 13 May 2016
Label: Signature Sounds
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 701237701721
Genres: Rock
Description
Now, the quintet gives us its seventh album, a provocative entry in its catalog, Love Songs, out March 18th on Signature Sounds. Recorded and co-produced by Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr., The Pixies, Lou Barlow, Speedy Ortiz), the album showcases an invigorated and raw Winterpills. This new release marks ten years as a band. To commemorate this career milestone, Winterpills will also reissue its self-titled debut on vinyl. Together, these releases bookend a freewheeling psych-folk-rock continuum. The Northampton, Massachusetts quintet are consummate masters of the slow burn; they've nurtured a singular aesthetic with lush and sometimes gritty instrumentation, emotive and literate lyrics, sublime vocal harmonies, and cinematically structured songs that stealthily pull you in and then destroy you.
Love Songs is tightly thematic. "At first the thought of calling it Love Songs was intended as a whimsical nod to the other million albums of the same title," Price says, "but then casting that light on the existing songs made them jump into stark relief: they were all love songs after all, though arriving at that place through strange portals and unused back roads." The tracks are definitely not your standard missives of affection: within the 11-song album, Winterpills explores love of the idea of love, love of unrealized love, love of the dead, love of family secrets, love of the concept of eternal return, love of ideas, and love of celebrity.
Description
The quintet Winterpills gives us its seventh album, a provocative entry in its catalog, 'Love Songs'. Recorded and co-produced by Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr., The Pixies, Lou Barlow, Speedy Ortiz), the album showcases an invigorated and raw Winterpills.
This release marks ten years as a band. To commemorate this career milestone, Winterpills will also reissue its self-titled debut on vinyl. Together, these releases bookend a freewheeling psych-folk-rock continuum. The Northampton, Massachusetts quintet are consummate masters of the slow burn; they've nurtured a singular aesthetic with lush and sometimes gritty instrumentation, emotive and literate lyrics, sublime vocal harmonies, and cinematically structured songs that stealthily pull you in and then destroy you.
Love Songs is tightly thematic. "At first the thought of calling it Love Songs was intended as a whimsical nod to the other million albums of the same title," Price says, "but then casting that light on the existing songs made them jump into stark relief: they were all love songs after all, though arriving at that place through strange portals and unused back roads." The tracks are definitely not your standard missives of affection: within the 11-song album, Winterpills explores love of the idea of love, love of unrealized love, love of the dead, love of family secrets, love of the concept of eternal return, love of ideas, and love of celebrity.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Chris Smither
Chris Smither
Eilen Jewell
Brennen Leigh
Chris Smither
Lake Street Dive
Brennen Leigh Featuring Asleep At The Wheel
Birds Of Chicago
Winterpills
Winterpills
Winterpills
Winterpills
Winterpills
Winterpills
