"With its soaring multi-tracked harmonies, guitars that swing between constricted jangle and broad-as-a-barn-door hooks, and the smattering of twinkling synthesizers and occasional violin providing the “pensive” moments, Chicago-by-way-of-Athens group The Winter Sounds shoots for all anthems, all the time on its new Church Of The Haunted South—which, quite frankly, proves exhausting over a single sitting. But even though the band’s ever-shifting sound is basically an amalgam of indie-rock all-stars—a bit of Arcade Fire’s cinematic grandeur, a pinch of Bloc Party’s synth-driven skittishness, a gloss of Belle And Sebastian’s melancholy—its passion is genuine (even intoxicating in a live setting), and the group’s mid-song stylistic turns are anything but predictable." -Austin Decider Album Review