Winterpills - The Light Divides - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Winterpills first unknowingly convened in a room with no furniture, on a shiny, bare wood floor, in front of a large bay window, during a harsh recent winter, in a small New England town. The good cheap magnums of wine were in season, as were guitars, and friends in need, some typically dire. Out the bay window, the snow flurried past the yellow streetlights on a treeless street called Orchard. Philip lay on the floor, looked up and saw his friend Flora, and later, to her left, his friend Dennis. It was time to play anything they wanted, and play they did, often not stopping until the sun came up. The catalogs of the Beatles, Throwing Muses, Neil Young, Stephen Merritt, the Carter Family, Elliott Smith, and others were all explored with no other thoughts than the friends, the wine, and the snow, eyes closed. Stealthily and casually, a sleeping body of Philip's songs began creeping into the mix. Very late one night, Dave Hower appeared at the door and joined the others, completing a sound the four knew and understood. They touched the songs very lightly, as if pushing them too hard might cause them to disappear. Dennis' guitar echoed the notes beneath each passage. Philip and Flora's voices together made a third, new, unheard voice. Dave's subtle and swirling beats pulled the shapes of the songs like taffy into sweeter, brighter forms that stayed light and yet lived well in the dark and the cold. Much like the improbable bumblebee, a beautiful new band formed and chose to fly. With their debut, Winterpills deliver an album that marks the arrival of a quietly stunning new band. Philip's transcendent melodies have never sounded more compelling or been performed with such reverence. Showcasing intimate male female vocals, haunting electric guitar, and bold inventive drumming, the album captures the sound of a band that has discovered a rare alignment of musicianship. From

Double gold colored vinyl LP pressing. Dirkschneider And The Old Gang (DATOG) was originally launched in 2020 as a one-off charity project, but quickly developed a momentum of it's own and formed into a band consisting of Udo Dirkschneider (vocals, ACCEPT/U.D.O./DIRKSCHNEIDER), Peter Baltes (bass, vocals, ACCEPT/U.D.O./DIRKSCHNEIDER), Stefan Kaufmann (guitar, ACCEPT/U.D.O.), Mathias Dieth (guitar, SINNER/U.D.O.), Sven Dirkschneider (drums, U.D.O./DIRKSCHNEIDER) and Manuela Bibert (vocals). Between 2020 and 2021 the first three singles attracted a lot of attention, whereupon the band wrote more songs and recorded their debut album. With a unique vocal concept of three voices, powerful riffs and stylistic complexity, DATOG combines classic heavy metal with a modern, powerful production.

Winterpills' fifth album, All My Lovely Goners, is a long-simmered (three years) collection of multifaceted Indie-Pop ruminations on love and death that run the sonic gamut from Shins-ish Rock, Fleetwood Mac-ish-shimmer, to Sandy Denny-ish melancholia. Engineered and produced by the band themselves in their studio, the album is as close to home as you can get. Formed in Northampton, Massachusetts in 2005, Winterpills have built a vibrant career with their exquisite Chamber-Pop songs that the Washington Post called Inchdensely packed but hugely evocative, tiny bombs of feeling and meaning fiendishly melodic.Inch And have grown into Incha band that is only becoming more essentialInch (The Hartford Courant). Every song on All My Lovely Goners effortlessly rises to this praise, with the band hitting a triumphantly gorgeous stride.