"Winterpills are at the peak of their craft, and the grand scope of 'This is How We Dance' is evidence they’re back to stay." - No Depression

"This Is How We Dance is an audacious, expansive work, yet somehow also trancelike... flecked with crystals of shivery rock and glimmers of folk."  - Vanyaland

"It only takes a single listen for the songs to lodge themselves in the back of your consciousness like the memory of someone you knew intimately, a long time ago." 

       - WBUR (NPR)

"I can think of no other band that can draw you in so well. This Is How We Dance is an atmospheric joy revealing a band totally connected and at ease with itself." 

       - I Don't Hear A Single

"After years of superb songwriting and music-making Winterpills have gone supernova on this extraordinary new album. " - Jim Neill, 93.9 The River

"Luminous..." -Glide Magazine

"The Northampton folk/rock/dream pop band return with the lush, blooming-but-a-bit-dark music it’s known for..." - The Boston Herald

"The variety of sounds and approaches on 'This Is How We Dance' make it the band’s most exploratory album, but at this point in Winterpills’ 20-year trajectory, there’s no reason not to push the musical boundaries that the band has traditionally observed — especially when the results are as consistently engaging as they are here." - Freak Scene

"gorgeous chamber pop that also reaches into the world of dream pop, and is slightly folk adjacent. As with virtually any song from Winterpills, the true magic comes from the vocal harmonies between Flora Reed and Phillip Price. " - If It's Too Loud

bio

Formed in the fog of the timeline around the fall of the Twin Towers, the death of Elliott Smith, the peak influence of Pitchfork and the dawn of the iPod, the members of Winterpills met and began making music in the old-fashioned winter of 2003 in the shambolic Northampton, MA music scene. At first 4 friends who all knew each other’s songs and talents and parents and had all recently suffered a common adult loss of some kind or another (a dead parent, some breakups, a custody battle, etc), they gleefully stumbled upon their sound: Flora Reed and Philip Price’s harmonies and “heartrending” songwriting (so says No Depression), Dennis Crommett’s tender shoegaze guitar, Dave Hower’s unclassifiable drumming, and later on Max Germer’s moonlit bass feel. "Winterpills gradually builds elegant arrangements... While the gathered instruments offer some solace, the songs stay haunted,“ wrote Jon Pareles in the New York Times.

The cinematic pop songs came effortlessly and partly channelled the freshly mourned Smith, a bit of the dust of Big Star, Low, Innocence Mission – and something else all their own. “I don’t know why Winterpills aren’t one of the most cherished pop bands in the world,” wrote Jonathan Lethem in Rolling Stone: “Their songs are mournful, slow-exploding and lyrically dazzling, and their albums have a coherence that’s rare.”

2025 marks the 20th anniversary of their eponymous first album, and the band is celebrating with a remastered reissue with bonus tracks. Over the past 20 years, the band has released 7 albums and numerous singles and EPs, has spent weeks both on the road and in the woodshed, and won’t relent. Emerging from the forced hiatus of the pandemic has given them a new perspective on their art. The restless Price released 3 solo albums during the unhappy break, but the full band has just finished recording their 8th full length, titled THIS IS HOW WE DANCE, set for release on November 14, 2025.

"An ice-filigreeing-the-bare-trees sound, cold and achingly beautiful -- is what sets this group apart... downright glorious when the harmonies start, as crisp and shining as crystal." - The Washington Post