“The Winter Sounds [are] the hardest working, most under appreciated band that you haven’t heard of but should.”
“Not too long ago, this Nashville quintet went to Chicago and played a swanky company Christmas party, recorded a Daytrotter session and played sets at Martyr’s and for a local high school choir class. Which is actually a neat summation of the music — it’s just exotic enough to sound like that one Decemberists’ record the suits get along with; it’s rooted in enough folk tradition to sound good pared down live in the studio; it’s just Portlandia enough for the indie bar crowd; and it’s just glockenspiel-friendly enough to reveal its high school band-grad roots and Polyphonic Spree fan-club membership past. None of that, by the way, is meant as insult.”
- John Schacht, Creative Loafing Charlotte
“The Winter Sounds opt for national attention, churning out a well-coalesced mixtape of indie rock’s finer moments from the past 10 years, resulting in a familiarly anthemic wall of guitars, electronics, strings and melancholy meoldies that all add up to a no-brainer for critical acclaim.”
- Seth Graves, The Nashville Scene
“Do they really sound like winter? Yes, because keyboards-and-beats-infused bleeding heart anthems in the key of Mumford conjure warm refuge from icy roads and bleak skies.”
- Chris Deville, The Columbus Dispatch
“Patrick Keenan sings about in a way that mysteriously sounds like the very definition of what the British blokes cream themselves over. Yet, there’s this very subtle American emotionalism to it that savors – oddly enough – the fragility of a thousand compressed feelings, once all strewn about, but now collected and focused upon specific loves of tragic consequence and dimensions.”
Booking: Vulcan Army Booking
Publicity: XO Publicity
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