Winterpills – The Light Divides

Listening to Winterpills music can be disorienting. There you are, bobbing your head, tapping your foot to the wildly infectious tunes. But when you reach for the lyric sheet to sing the real words instead of the phonetic ones in your head, you realize you are actually grooving to tunes about dying, death, funerals, the end of the world. Its the musical equivalent of a rollicking picnic at the cemetery. Take the opening track to the western Massachusetts quartets impressive sophomore disc. On Lay Your Heartbreak, singer-songwriter Philip Price and bandmate Flora Reed build to a beautiful, harmony-rich vocal crescendo at the end of the waltz-tempo song. The lyrics they are singing: You could make me feel so good if youd come here and cry. Price writes poignantly melancholic, largely acoustic songs but delivers them with shovelfuls of sugar, backed by a talented and innately dynamic band.