GRAMMY-WINNING PRODUCER PAUL KOLDERIE PROPELS KINGSLEY FLOOD’S SOUND FORWARD ON NEW ‘ANOTHER OTHER’ (OCTOBER 14)

Kingsley Flood – the Newport Folk Fest alums – have propelled their sound forward on new album ‘Another Other’ (October 14) with the help of GRAMMY-winning producer Paul Kolderie (Radiohead, The Pixies, Joe Jackson, Portugal. The Man., Dinosaur Jr.). Kolderie said, “I love this band and I had a blast making this record. Great songs, great people, and we had a lot of fun making it. I think that comes through in the recording. Plus we got to work in an old Masonic temple with shadowy Egyptian gods on the wall.”

Frontman Naseem Khuri recalls, “One of the best traits of Kolderie is his demeanor; he can stay calm through a warzone. He saw us all duking it out over the timing of a trumpet solo, and using very few words, resolved it. He just said quietly, ‘hold on,’ turned around, messed with the board, and played both tracks on top of each other, a few bars apart. [Keyboardist and trumpet player] Chris [Barrett] then did a real take of that second part, and we had our solo with dueling trumpets.” He also suggested layering three different fuzz bass textures on “To The Wolves.” Bassist Nick Balkin adds, “It always a heavy song, but he made it crushingly heavy.”

Kingsley Flood Fall Tour Dates

October 21 – New Haven, CT – Café Nine
October 28 – Gloucester, MA – Rhumb Line
October 29 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
November 18 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
November 19 – Washington, DC – Rock N Roll Hotel

CO-PRODUCER JUSTIN PIZZOFERRATO (SPEEDY ORTIZ, PARQUET COURTS, J. MASCIS) EXPANDS PALETTE OF NEW WINTERPILLS ALBUM ‘LOVE SONGS’ (MARCH 18 / SIGNATURE SOUNDS)

Long known among chamber pop and indie folk fanatics, Winterpills expanded their sonic palette for new album ‘Love Songs’ (March 18 / Signature Sounds) with co-producer Justin Pizzoferrato. Brooklyn Vegan has called Pizzoferrato the “go-to Western Mass guy” and The Boston Phoenix has praised him as a “lover of sound.” The result is a grander scale that draws on ‘90s indie rock. A veteran of sessions with The Pixies, Parquet Courts, J. Mascis, and Speedy Ortiz, Pizzoferrato says, "I'm grateful to have worked on ‘Love Songs’; it's not the kind of record you're called to work on very often. I think it's beautiful, front to back, left to right."

Winterpills songwriter Philip Price says, “Justin is that rare engineering bird who can work as fast as our brains could musically think. It felt like we were really living inside the songs instead of stepping outside them all the time.”

One example is the song “Chapel.” Price recalls, “Justin encouraged us to leave in a lot of the experimental noise and layers that left to my own devices, I would have likely weeded out. He could hear that for that one song, the forest WAS the trees. It’s one of my favorite tracks on the album.” “Chapel” kicks off with a droning acoustic sound and Winterpills’ signature harmonies before quickly picking up into an electric indie rock refrain, a pattern that’s repeated; these careful dynamics draw in listeners to the song’s waxing and waning melody and into the beautiful chaos of the end section, making it feel alive and present.