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The Massachusetts band Winterpills is something of a house band for the small Americana music label Signature Sounds. There's a few reasons for this: vocalist/keyboardist Flora Reed moonlights as the label's Director of Publicity, and guitarist Dennis Crommett released a pretty good solo album in his own right on the label last year called In the Buffalo Surround. Thus, Winterpills feels like a "family affair". More to the point, though, Winterpills encapsulate the ragged chamber pop beauty, with country and folkish edges, that is seemingly a poster child for all things Signature Sounds: Winterpills is very much the Signature Sound of the label proper. And what a label it is. While the Signature Sounds catalogue is some 50 albums deep, and it would be impossible for someone to listen to everything the label has put out without being some kind of fetishist, what this reviewer has heard from them leads me to conclude that you can't really go wrong when purchasing something from that stable. Based on my experiences with label bands like Lake Street Dive, Joy Kills Sorrow, Crooked Still and others, it seems that Signature Sounds - a label that specializes in Americana, jazzy pop, folk and bluegrass-really hasn't released something that is outright horrible. There's a bevy of quality that the Signature Sounds stamp represents, something that leads me to eagerly await something new from them, so having a band like Winterpills being a public presence due to the intertwined nature that its band members have invested in the label is probably a wise and astute thing.
 

Verenigde Staten
Folk / Rock
Label: Signature Sounds


1. We Turned Away 
2. Amazing Sky 
3. Small Bright Doses 
4. Rogue Highway 
5. Pretty Girls 
6. January Rain 
7. Sun Is Alone, The 
8. Minxy 
9. October 
10. Dying Star 
11. Fleur-De-Luce 
12. Sunspots (Ruins) 
13. Feather Blue